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Mapping India’s Capitalism
Old and New Regions
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Elisabetta Basile
Professor of Development Economics, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
Barbara Harriss-White
Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, UK
Christine Lutringer
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1. Economic development—India. 2. Capitalism—India. 3. Regional
planning—India. 4. Rural development—India. I. Basile, Elisabetta.
II. Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946– III. Lutringer, Christine.
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Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Maps vii
Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction: Space and Capitalist Development
in Contemporary India 1
Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer
1 Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India 9
Deepak K. Mishra and Barbara Harriss-White
2 Mapping Agro-Ecological Zones in India 43
Richard Palmer-Jones and Kunal Sen
3 Uneven Development and Peasant Mobilisations:
Perspectives from Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh 65
Christine Lutringer
4 Regions and Capitalist Transition in India:
Arunachal Pradesh in a Comparative Perspective 87
Deepak K. Mishra
5 Women and Work in India: Simultaneous Geographies 113
Saraswati Raju
6 A Spatial Analysis of the Incorporation of Dalits into
the Indian Business Economy 143
Kaushal K. Vidyarthee
7 Constructing Spatialised Knowledge about Urban Poverty:
(Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making
in Urban Governance 167
Isa Baud
8 Reciprocity as Regulation: Exploring Methodologies in
Urban Design for the Informal Economy of the
Historic Pete, Bengaluru, India 193
Champaka Rajagopal
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9 Mapping Territories of Luxury: Spatial and Symbolic
Reassertion of Inequality in Indian Cities 219
Isabelle Milbert
Conclusion: Lineages of Scholarship – A Conversation
with Barbara Harriss-White 239
Christine Lutringer
Index 245
List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Tables
2.1 Agro-ecological zones 50
5.1 Employment status by sex and residence, 2009–2010,
age group 15–19 years 118
5.2 Regular salaried workers in urban private households,
2009–2010 119
5.3 Regular salaried workers in educational institutions,
urban India, 2009–2010 119
5.4 Workers in each MPCE quintile in rural India,
2009–2010, age group 15–59 years 125
5.5 Workers in each MPCE quintile in urban India,
2009–2010, age group 15–59 years 126
5.6 Educational attainment levels among self-employed
workers 2009–2010, age group 15–59 years 131
6.1 Moran’s I statistics for indices of incorporation at the
State- and district-levels, 2005 155
6.2 OLS and spatial regression results for indices of
incorporation-private enterprises at the State level, 2005 156
6.3 Spatial error regression results for all sectors at the
State level, 2005 159
6.4 OLS and spatial regression results for indices of
incorporation-private enterprises at the district level, 2005 160
7.1 Summary of deprivations and percentage of slum
inhabitants in quintile of Delhi wards with highest
levels of IMD 176
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viii List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Figures
5.1 Home-based workers among self-employed
workers (rural), 2009–2010 121
5.2 Home-based workers among self-employed
workers (urban), 2009–2010 121
7.1 Criteria model to map multiple deprivations 173
7.2 Flow chart of the methodology of mapping 174
7.3 Wards with highest poverty levels according to the
index of multiple deprivations (IMD) (left map)
compared with wards with highest percentage of
inhabitants living in slums (right map) 175
7.4 ‘Spaces’ for participation and their use in grievance
redressal 180
7.5 Spatial concentration of priority issues by ward in K-D 186
8.1 Centrally located Pete; Bengaluru 195
8.2 Markets associated with trades 196
8.3 Private activities negotiating public space 197
8.4 Bifurcations of land among a Devanga family 202
8.5 Traditional oil pressing 203
8.6 Avenue Road: bifurcated plots, 100 per cent ground
coverage 205
8.7 Mutual adjustment: tensions between the ‘Inside’
and the ‘Outside’ 209
Maps
1.1 NSS regions and States of India 16
1.2 Percentage of households leasing-in land 19
1.3 Percentage of total operated area leased-in 20
1.4 Percentage of farmer households owning less than
1 ha of land 22
List of Tables, Figures and Maps ix
1.5 Percentage of small and marginal holdings (less than 2 ha) 23
1.6 Percentage of agricultural labourers in total
agricultural (main) workers, 2011 25
1.7 Percentage of expenditure on purchased inputs to total
expenditure 26
1.8 Percentage of total output sold by all farmers 27
1.9 Percentage of farmers selling more than 10 per cent
of their output 28
2.1 Indian agro-ecological zones 51
2.2 Rural poverty in India – 1987–1988 and 1993–1994 55
2.3 Poverty correlates, NSS regions 56
2.4 Growth of agricultural productivity and inputs to
agriculture – 1962–1965, 1990–1993 57
5.1 Women workers (age group 15–59), 1993–1994 122
5.2 Women workers (age group 15–59), 2009–2010 123
5.3 Gendered India: spatial differentiation in select attributes 132
6.1 Indices of incorporation for all private enterprises at
the district level, 2005 154
