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Globalisation links villages to world prices, brands, and migrant wages. Cash crops and remittances reorganise households. Mining and corporate land hit tribal commons; FRA is a counter-file. Factory goods undercut artisans. Caste still filters who captures contracts and who only sells labour.
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Introduction
Globalisation plugs the Indian village into distant prices, brands, and labour markets. The impact is cash, risk, and a thinner local grain economy.
Body
Markets and labour
- Cash crops, contract farming, and retail brands reach the mandi. Village grain self-sufficiency falls.
- Remittances from Gulf and city work, already hinted in older circular migration, now organise many households.
- Yogendra Singh’s modernisation frame fits: economy differentiates, caste still mediates who gets the contract.
Land and commons
- Corporate land and mining, especially in Fifth Schedule belts, globalise dispossession. FRA claims fight that impact.
- Cheap Chinese and factory goods undercut village artisans, a blow N. K. Bose would have read as a civilisational craft loss.
Social economy
- Phones and television sell aspiration that Srinivas would class with Westernisation.
- Self-help groups and MNREGA are state answers inside the same global fiscal world.
- The village economy is not erased. It is re-priced and partly de-agrarianised.
Flow diagram
flowchart TD G[Globalisation] --> C[Cash crops remittance] G --> L[Land mining FRA] G --> A[Artisan loss aspiration]
Conclusion
Globalisation commercialises the village, raises remittances, and weakens local crafts and commons. Caste and land still decide who wins the new prices.
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