Subject(s): Rural development in Asia. -- Agriculture in Asia. -- Asia in Rural conditions. -- Agrarian tenure in India -- Rural-urban migration in Asia in History -- Agriculture and state in Asia -- Agriculture in Economic aspects in Asia -- Forms of Agrarian Transition -- Alternative Analytical Paradigms in Theories of Development -- Rural Transformation ,Colonial Antecedents and the State -- The Internal Dynamics of Rural Transformation -- Rice Economics -- Chines Rural Development Post Mao -- Commercialization of Agriculture -- Involvement Versus Peasant Differentiation -- Agriculture and Demographic Regimes in India -- Diversification and Social Differentiation -- Methodological and Empirical Exercise -- The External Linkages of Rural Transformation -- Agricultural and Non-agriculture Linkages and Diversification of Rural Economics: A South Indian Case Study -- Rural Industrialization -- Agricultural Constrains in India