TY - BOOK AU - Anton Kohler-Leu PY - 2021 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 0721-3573 TI - Indian Villages between Tradition and Transformation T2 - An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Innovation on Socio-Economic, Agricultural and Socio-Cultural Change in Two South Indian Villages UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1070938 N2 - Technological and agricultural innovations in traditional societies cause significant socio-economic and socio-cultural changes which this study examins. It is based on an empirical investigation and careful field-research in Maharashtra. Two villages are compared as to their differences in socio-economic, agricultural and socio-cultural development. The first, traditional village is on the threshold of change from rainfed subsistance to irrigated agriculture whereas the other has had intensive irrigation for several years already. LA - English ER -