Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades

This book investigates in detail the varying economic fortunes of Palanpur, a village in rural North India, between 1957 and 1993, building on the research begun in Palanpur: The Economics of an Indian Village, published in 1982. Although economic well-being rose in some important respects, Palanpur experienced stagnation and even decline in other areas. The authors present and analyse detailed qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data to illuminate this uneven progress, and their results will be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists as well as economists and all those involved in development studies.