ABSTRACT
This book aims to test a general proposition about family farming as gaining strength from structural transformation in India.1 We obviously need to start by defining our terms. We will expand on the definition of structural transformation (ST) and agrarian transformation in Chapter 2. Briefly put we refer to a social and economic process during which the industrial and service sectors are growing in proportions of GDP and of the total labour force. A main question in this book is therefore: What happens to the agrarian sector, when the economy as a whole is transforming?
