Explores In Details The Management, Styles Patterns Of Investment And Economic Diversification, Family And Partnership Focus Of Co-Operation, Life Styles, Private Wealth, Marriage Customs, Caste & Class Linkages Of Large Farmers And Small-Scale Industrialists In West India. Based An Author`S Field Work And Case Studies In Gujarat.

Taking Jetpur and its hinterland as an example, economic demographer Dupont evaluates the capacity of a medium-sized industrial town to attract and settle populations in the context of economic and industrial activity, and simultaneously investigates what the migrants expect in terms of their economic and social strategies consequent to shifting to a town. She synthesizes her detailed findings into implications for formulating appropriate industrial and urban policies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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