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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 A Profile of Nepal's Agrarian Economy -- Resource distribution and migration -- A geographical profile -- An economic profile -- A demographic profile -- Field survey procedure -- 2 A General Theory of Underdevelopment and Migration -- A conceptual background -- A review of relevant formulations of migration -- A structural theory of migration -- Conclusions: three major issues of migration and development -- 3 State Policies, Underdevelopment, and Hill Outmigration -- Evolution of social formations -- Roots of underdevelopment of Nepal's agrarian economy -- Origin of hill outmigration -- Migration and underdevelopment in the present context -- Summary -- 4 Landlessness and Nearlandlessness: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis -- Landlessness and nearlandlessness as a development issue -- A theory of landlessness and nearlandlessness -- Landlessness and nearlandlessness in Nepal -- Some policy implications -- 5 The Patrimonial State, Development Planning, and Origins of Land Colonization Policy -- The patrimonial state and social origin of land colonization policy -- Development planning and land colonization -- Summary -- 6 Frontier Migration and Hill Migrants' Achievements in the Tarai -- Frontier migration and settlement: an overview -- Tarai's colonial and peripheral status: an historical view -- Frontier migration and settlement in the Tarai: past and present -- Field data analysis -- Conclusion -- 7 The Politics of Land, Spontaneous Settlement, and the Prospect of Agrarian Revolution -- The politics of land -- The 1979 landless movement and spontaneous settlement -- Frontier migration and the prospect of agrarian revolution in Nepal -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

Shrestha reviews 'Earthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice' edited by Fen Osler Hampton and Judith Reppy.

This study provides a political-economic analysis of the roots of and the relationship between, the process of underdevelopment and external migration in Nepal. While the internal institutional policies were responsible for initiating these two economic and demographic processes, British India's Gorkha recruitment policy contributed to their perpetuation. Today, Nepal's economy is trapped in a negative feedback cycle in which underdevelopment fuels outmigration which, in turn, propagates underdevelopment. Regardless of the nature of its socioeconomic impact, outmigration from the hills has emerged as a major economic survival factor for many migrant households and local economies. (Internat. Polit. Science Assoc.)