Agrarian Change and Accumulation in Central India: Revisiting the Agrarian Question of Capital
Published online on March 13, 2026
Abstract
["Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nIn this paper, we revisit the relevance of the agrarian question of capital and provide evidence of the dynamism in agriculture based on an empirical enquiry. We study the possibilities, channels and patterns of agrarian accumulation and its spillover on the nonagrarian accumulation dynamics in an agriculturally advanced region lying in central India. Based on this empirical study, we posit that the agrarian question of capital remains important at a regional scale in India. By bringing the focus back on the question of capital, the paper maps the contemporary agrarian change processes as being linked to the process of generation of agrarian surplus and contributes to the debate on the relevance of the agrarian question of capital in the global south.\n"]