ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the experience of the agricultural sector throughout the process of structural transformation of state economies. It addresses many aspects of the role of agriculture, its characteristics and some of the ramifications of its growth. The book identifies the interstate variation in growth rates was discussed, and the pace and pattern of income changes throughout agricultural India. The book suggests that female participation in the high growth agricultural regions was low compared to the national average, and decreased even further during the green revolution. It explains the lack of a clear pattern of interstate migration: the principal losing and absorbing states are neither the, high nor low growth agricultural regions. The book provides an analysis of the capitalist mode of production in rural India, which was found to be most widespread in Punjab and Haryana.
