De-ploughing the “Rural"

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Why does data about increasing rural consumption shock us? Urban imagination sees the rural as a static, timeless domain where people are bare-minimalists lacking in ambition, agency or entrepreneurship. However, even if agriculture is declining, the rural isn’t. The rural is getting reconstituted amidst this confusion with ambivalent trends.

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http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/25/web-exclusives/de-ploughing-%E2%80%9Crural.html
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Publication Date: 
18/06/2016