Agrarian Relations in the Lower Cauvery Delta – A Study of Palakurichi and Venmani Villages

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Madhura Swaminathan V. Surjit

Agrarian Relations in the Lower Cauvery Delta – A Study of Palakurichi and Venmani Villages

Madhura Swaminathan, V. Surjit, V.k. Ramachandran

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English

Tulika Books
22 April 2024

Food & society; Economics; Development economics

"This book discusses agrarian relations in the Lower Cauvery delta, historically part of the ""rice bowl"" of south India, based on socio-economic studies of two villages in the region. The two villages, surveyed in 2018–19 by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, are Venmani and Palakurichi, located in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. Venmani was the site of an atrocity in 1968, when upper-caste landlords burned down the huts of Scheduled Caste agricultural workers to suppress their struggle for higher wages and better working conditions, killing forty-four women and children. Palakurichi has been a site of study for over a century, with its first survey conducted as part of the Slater village project in 1916 and a further five studies since then, providing a unique opportunity to study long-term change in rural India. The essays in the book use data from the village studies to analyse features of caste discrimination and class differentiation. They point to important changes in the class structure of the two villages, with a decline in the number of landlords, a proliferation of small and marginal landowning peasants, and a transformation of the class of agricultural labourers into a class of manual workers."

By: Madhura Swaminathan, V. Surjit, V.k. Ramachandran
Imprint: Tulika Books
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9788195055951
ISBN 10: 8195055958
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Madhura Swaminathan is is Professor and Head, Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru. V. Surjit is is Associate Professor, Centre for Agrarian Studies, National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad. V. K. Ramachandran is a trustee of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies.