Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India
Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented the growth of the rural population in India. The reasons why people stay where they are have become as important as the factors that encourage them to migrate. The use of anthropological methods in conjunction with survey research helps...
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Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented the growth of the rural population in India. The reasons why people stay where they are have become as important as the factors that encourage them to migrate. The use of anthropological methods in conjunction with survey research helps highlight economic and sociocultural factors in all their diversity, as also the range of strategies used by villagers to adapt to their circumstances. Peasant Moorings provides valuable insights into the dynamics and impact of population mobility. It also underlines the potentially tragic consequences if India's rural population were to become less attached to their roots in the future. Peasant Moorings will be of considerable interest to policymakers and planners, geographers, economists, and anthropologists as well as those engaged in the fields of urban studies, rural development, and migration studies. Booknews With three-fourths of the population continuing to reside in rural areas, India's residential patterns constitute a strikingly different trend from most other developing countries. This volume focuses on India's villagers and the complex considerations which encourage or inhibit the decision to migrate, contextualized within the sociocultural and economic situations in different geographical areas. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Preface - J L Racine PART ONE To Migrate or Stay? - P D Mahadev and J L Racine Rural Systems Adapted to High Densities of Population - P J Roca Land and Men of South Karnataka Moorings and Mobility in an Indian Context - M A Kalam An Anthropological Perspective PART TWO Migration and Moorings in the Maidan - F Landy Mobility and Change in the Western Ghats - B N Shivalingappa Agrarian Structure and Patterns of Mobility - K Nagaraj A Case Study of Two Villages in Dakshina Kannada District Rural Non-Agricultural Employment and the Retention of Village Population - H Gu[ac]etat-Bernard A Case Study of Mysore and Mandya Districts PART THREE The Roots of Man - J L Racine
\ BooknewsWith three-fourths of the population continuing to reside in rural areas, India's residential patterns constitute a strikingly different trend from most other developing countries. This volume focuses on India's villagers and the complex considerations which encourage or inhibit the decision to migrate, contextualized within the sociocultural and economic situations in different geographical areas. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
