ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses agrarian transition in the context of neoliberal global capitalist development to provide an analytical account of changing agrarian situation in India by critically engaging with major global debates. It presents core issues of conceptual and theoretical nature raised in the discourse on agrarian transition. The book accounts trajectories of global capitalist development and the emerging changes in the Indian agriculture in the context of neoliberal reforms and their implications for agrarian transition. Lenin-Chayanov debate was the most fascinating debate covering a number of key issues on political economy of agrarian change like class differentiation, capitalist and socialist transition and related issues. Thus, the twentieth-century debates on agrarian transition were built on these classical positions. The book focuses on regional experiences of agricultural transformation and highlight common processes at work and diversities in region-specific development experiences.
