Shaping India

List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Paradox of Development/Rising Growth and Disparity/Decline of Agriculture/Poverty Reduction/History and -- Part I Land and Agriculture -- 1. Evolution of Land Rights in India/S. Neelakantan -- 2. Structural Changes in Land Distribution and Their Implications for Improving Access to Land/K. N. Nair and Arindam Banerjee -- 3. Changing Agrarian Structure in India: Reflections on Pre-independence Ideology and Post-independence Reality/A. Vaidyanathan -- 4. Population Pressure and Labour Intensification: An Indian Historical Perspective/N. Krishnaji -- 5. Institutional Strangleholds: Agricultural Science and the State in India/Rajeswari S. Raina -- Part II Entrepreneurship and Industry -- 6. Revisiting Indian Capitalists in Colonial India: Some Critical Reflections/Raman Mahadevan -- 7. From Merchants to Multi-national Enterprises: European Trading Firms in South Indiaâs Plantation Sector/Tharian George K. -- 8. Fiat or Trust? A Story of Indian Banking (1857â"2007) with a Regional Perspective/D. Narayana -- 9. Six Decades of Industrial Development: Growth of the Manufacturing Sector in India from the 1940s/C. P. Chandrasekhar -- Part III Demographic Trends -- 10. Fertility in India since Independence: An Overview/K. Srinivasan -- 11. Mortality Trends and Patterns in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives/K. Navaneetham and C. S. Krishnakumar -- 12. A Long Haul: Revisiting International Migration from India during the 19th and 20th Centuries/S. Irudaya Rajan and Prabhat Kumar -- Part IV A Critical Theoretical Perspective -- 13. Pathways to Indiaâs Economic Past/K. T. Rammohan -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.