Economic Changes and social Transformation n Modern and Contemporary South Asia

现代和当代南亚的经济变迁和社会转型

基本信息

批准号：
02041030
负责人：
TANIGUCHI Shinkichi
金额：
$ 9.28万
依托单位：
Hitotsubashi University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
财政年份：
1990
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1990 至 1992
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The researches were conducted by Japanese scholars and their Indian and Bangladeshi counterparts. After two years field works, we held an international workshop in 1992. Part of the papers read on that occasion has already been printed under the title of Economic Change and Social Transformation in Modern and Contemporary South Asia (Part I), and the rest will follow very soon.The Project was divided into 2 parts. Part one mainly dealt with historical aspects of the problem and we have 4 articles. All these articles found that there were great social changes among the lower classes in the plains and also among the tribal people in the frontiers during the British colonial rule. Second part of the research (in total 8 articles) concerned with the contemporary problems of lower classes both in rural and urban areas. Some of the important findings of this part of out project may now be summarized. In the rural areas old framework of labor division still more or less continues, but in urban and semi-urban areas wave of changes among the lower classes have gone fairly a long way. However, this does not mean that all the sections of the lower classes changed equally. While some of them have been very active in obtaining higher education and more professional kinds of jobs with higher social esteem and higher income, many others have been rather backward in these respects and still remains at the bottom of the society. Change agents identified by our researches are education, employment in the municipalities (reserved employment) and activities of certain social organizations meant for uplift of the lower classes of people. Further researches are urgently called for in order to find out the particular factors which contributed to the different reactions to the changing econo-socio-politico conditions surrounding there people.

这些研究是由日本学者以及印度和孟加拉国同行进行的。经过两年的实地考察，我们于1992年举办了一次国际研讨会。当时宣读的部分论文已印成《现当代南亚的经济变迁与社会转型（上）》，其余部分将在很快就会跟进。该项目分为 2 部分。第一部分主要讨论这个问题的历史方面，我们有 4 篇文章。这些文章都发现，在英国殖民统治时期，平原下层阶级和边疆部落人民之间都发生了巨大的社会变革。研究的第二部分（共8篇文章）关注当代农村和城市地区下层阶级的问题。现在可以总结我们项目这一部分的一些重要发现。在农村地区，旧的分工框架仍然或多或少地延续着，但在城市和城乡结合部地区，下层阶级的变革浪潮已经走了相当长的路。然而，这并不意味着下层阶级的所有阶层都发生了同等的变化。虽然他们中的一些人非常积极地接受高等教育和获得更高社会尊重和更高收入的更专业的工作，但许多其他人在这些方面却相当落后，仍然处于社会底层。我们的研究确定的变革推动者是教育、城市就业（保留就业）以及某些旨在提高下层人民生活水平的社会组织的活动。迫切需要进一步的研究，以找出导致人们对周围不断变化的经济社会政治条件产生不同反应的特定因素。