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1 Prasad, T.; Verdhen, A.; Sinha, R. S.; Verma, A. K. 1992. Experience of community managed tubewells in the command of a surface irrigation project. In IIMI, Groundwater farmer-managed irrigation systems and sustainable groundwater management: A South Asian Regional Workshop of the FMIS Network, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18-21 May 1992. Vol.II. pp.103:i-103:xiv.
Groundwater irrigation ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Farmers' associations ; Tube well irrigation ; Communal irrigation systems / India / North Bihar
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.6.3 G570 IIM Record No: H016223)
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2 Shah, T. 1999. Pump irrigation and equity: Machine reform and agrarian transformation in water abundant Eastern India. Unpublished paper. IDE-Ford Foundation supported "Irrigation Against Rural Poverty Research Programme." Anand, India: Policy School. 18p. (Policy School working papers 6)
Irrigated farming ; Pumps ; Equity ; Agrarian reform ; Poverty ; Farmers ; Rural women ; Rural economy / India / North Bengal / Uttar Pradesh / North Bihar
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 5017 Record No: H023831)
3 Agarwal, A.; Chak, A. (Eds.) 1991. State of India's environment 3: Floods, flood plains and environmental myths. New Delhi, India: Centre for Science and Environment. viii, 167p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 627.4 G635 AGA Record No: H035253)
4 Kumari, M.; Suresh, R. 2005. Drip irrigation in vegetable crops in calcareous soil of North Bihar. Indian Farming, 54(10):19-21.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7341 Record No: H037045)
5 Sugden, Fraser. 2017. A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar. Dialectical Anthropology, 41(2):129-161. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9436-3]
Agricultural production ; Climate change ; Cultivated land ; Lowland ; Landowners ; Agrarian structure ; Tenant farmers ; Labour ; Living standards ; Political aspects ; Capitalism ; Feudalism ; Colonialism ; Rural communities ; Households ; Social aspects ; History ; Caste systems ; Migration ; Economic situation ; Indebtedness ; Farm income ; Remuneration / Nepal / India / North Bihar / Tarai / Eastern Gangetic Plains / Madhesh / Mithilanchal / Madhubani / Dhanusha / Morang / Purnea / Sunsari
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047834)
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The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia represents a peripheral region far from the centers of global capitalist production, and this is all the more apparent in Mithilanchal, a cultural domain spanning the Nepal/Bihar border. The agrarian structure can be considered ‘semi-feudal’ in character, dominated by landlordism and usury, and backed up by political and ideological processes. Paradoxically, Mithilanchal is also deeply integrated into the global capitalist market and represents a surplus labor pool for the urban centers of Western India as well as the Persian Gulf in a classic articulation between pre-capitalist and capitalist modes of production. A review of the changes in the agrarian structure over recent decades in the context of globalisation, out-migration and climate stress, shows that while landlordism remains entrenched, the relationship between the marginal and tenant farmer majority and the landed classes has changed, with the breakdown of ideological ties and reduced dependence on single landlords. The paper thus ends on a positive note, as the contemporary juncture represents an opportune moment for new avenues of political mobilization among the peasantry.
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