Family Farms in Agrarian Literature—A Critique

Seema Purushothaman () and Sheetal Patil ()
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Seema Purushothaman: Azim Premji University
Sheetal Patil: Azim Premji University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India, 2019, pp 25-52 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents glimpses of the treatment of smallholders in noted agrarian literature. As the notion of the smallholder is multi-dimensional, multi-scalar and also multi-regional, the volume of published work is extensive. Consequently, categorising this body of work is challenging. Yet, we have tried to organise relevant and well known studies in a manner that will be useful while reading the rest of the book. This chapter will uncover the ecological and institutional gaps identified in the previous chapter while trying to unearth pertinent questions that remain unaddressed. This is a selective, chronological review of literature relevant to agrarian dynamics in the backdrop of urbanisation and is not intended to be exhaustive. Most relevant studies on peri-urban interface have been reviewed in our earlier work (Purushothaman et al. 2016). In the interest of brevity, studies relevant for selected peri-urban locations will be taken up during site-specific discussions in the later chapters.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8336-5_2

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