Introductory Rural Sociology: Continuity And Change

By Prof. Ashish Saxena | IIT Kanpur

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Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	21 Aug 2023
End Date :	13 Oct 2023
Enrollment Ends :	21 Aug 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	15 Sep 2023
Exam Date :	28 Oct 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Module 1:Introduction to Rural society and Peasants

Emergence of Rural Sociology
Village Studies in India
Sociological analysis of rural phenomena
Conceptualizing peasantry

Module 2:Theorizing peasantry

Debating Peasantry
Agrarian capitalist development & Theory of peasant economy
Economic aspects of peasantry
Moral economy of peasantry

Module 3:Peasant movement in India

Moplah rebellion
Tebhaga revolt
Telangana movement
Naxalbari movement
New farmer’s movement

Module 4:Changing agrarian structure and Rural developmental Concerns in Rural society

Changing agrarian structure – Rural family, rural Religion and agrarian classes
Rural poverty and Rural Development initiatives
Rural Cooperatives and Panchayati Raj Institutions
Green revolution and Land reforms in India
Farmer’s suicide in rural India
Changing Occupational structure in rural India
Globalization and Agriculture

Books and references

1. Beteille, A 1965. Caste, Class and Power. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Beteille, Andre.1974. Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, New Delhi: OUP
3. Brass, Tom (ed.). 1995. New Farmers' Movements in India. Essex: Frank Cass & Co.
4. Chauhan, Brij.Raj.1974. “Rural Studies: A Trend Report”, in ICSSR (ed) A Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol.I, Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
5. Daniel Thorner (1966). The Theory of Peasant Economy, In D Thorner et al (ed) A.V Chayanov.s Theory of Peasant Economy, New Delhi: OUP.
6. Desai A. R. ed. 1978. Rural Sociology in India, Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
7. Desmarais, A.A. 2007: Globalisation and the Power of Peasants. Delhi: Daanish Books.
8. Dhanagare, D N. 1983. Peasant Movements in India 1920-1950, New Delhi.: Oxford University Press,
9. Harris, J. (ed.). 1982. Rural Development. Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change, Hutchinson: London
10. Joshi P.C. 1976. Land Reforms in India. Delhi: Allied Publisher Ltd.
11. Madan, V. (ed) 2002: The village in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
12. Pai, Sudha. 2010. ‘Farmer’s movements’ in Niraja Gopal Jayal & Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.) Politics in India, New Delhi: OUP
13. Patnaik, U. 1987. 1987. Peasant Class Differentiation, New Delhi: OUP.
14. Scott, James C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
15. Shanin, T. 1972. The Awkward Class, Oxford: Oxford University Press
16. Shiva Vandana and Gitanjali Bedi (2002), Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalisation, , Sage Publications. New Delhi
17. Shiva, Vandana. 2001. Patents . Myths and Reality. New Delhi: Penguin Books India
18. SinghaRoy. Debal K.. 2005. ‘Peasant Movements in Contemporary India: Emerging Forms of Domination and Resistance’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 52 (Dec. 24-30, 2005), pp. 5505-5513.
19. Wolf, Eric R. 1966. Peasant, New York: Prentice Hall.

Instructor bio

Prof. Ashish Saxena

IIT Kanpur

Ashish Saxena presently is Professor & Head, Department of Sociology at University of Allahabad. He has over eighteen years of teaching experience and has significant publications on the issues related to perspectives on Indian society, Social exclusion, Social Justice, Subaltern communities, Land reforms, Democratic decentralization, Identity politics and Globalization in India. Recipient of prestigious UGC-DAAD fellowship 2014 under the UGC-DAAD exchange of scientist programme in Humanities and Social Sciences. He has been felicitated with the prestigious D.P.Mukherji Memorial Award (ISSA) – 2017; ‘Sulabh Swacchta Samman 2016’ ; ‘Gold medal’ for academic contribution in the field of ‘Sociology of Sanitation ‘and Action Sociology by Sulabh International. New Delhi and prestigious Dewang Mehta National Education Award by Business School Affaire, Mumbai on its 25th Silver Jubilee Year in 2017.

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Date and Time of Exams: 28 October 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

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