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Agrarian Change and Social Mobility in Tamil Nadu

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Author

  • Göran Djurfeldt
  • Venkatesh B. Athreya
  • N Jayakumar
  • Staffan Lindberg
  • R. Vidyasagar
  • A. Rajagopal

Summary, in English

This is a study of social mobility over 25 years in six villages in the former Tiruchy District in Tamil Nadu. The two most important external drivers are local industrialization and social policy in a broad sense. In a mainly descriptive analysis, it is shown that the overall effect seems to be a centripetal tendency in agrarian structure, with tendencies towards a strengthened position for family farming and for both the topdogs and the underdogs in the old agrarian society to leave agriculture altogether, seeking improved life chances in the non-agrarian economy, both inside the villages and in the wider economy. The descriptive analysis in this article is followed up with a modelling exercise in an accompanying article.

Department/s

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Publication/Series

Economic and Political Weekly

Volume

43

Issue

45

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • sociology India social mobility

Status

Published