Credit

3.00   (L-T-P:   3-0-0)

Department / Center / School / Unit

Sociology

Course Objectives

This course will introduce students to interdisciplinary perspectives on agriculture and rural development across the world using historical and contemporary sources.

Course Contents

The course will introduce students to theories related to agriculture and development
including modernization theory, the rational peasant, moral economy, the agrarian question, modes of production debates, peasantry as a class, etc. Readings from the history of agriculture in various countries including the United States, Asia, Africa and India will be taught from a comparative perspective. The course will help students understand the economic, social, cultural, ecological, political dimensions to the agrarian question, especially in the light of urbanization and globalization over the last 150 years.