Globalization and the Changing Dynamics of Rural India

Globalization has made a lot of changes in rural India, which has changed the economic, social, and cultural arrangements of the place.This paper will analyse how neoliberal policies and liberalization of the economy has affected rural India starting with the reforms of 1980s.Such reforms have effectively integrated India into the world economy but they have played a major role in benefitting the urban middle classes and economic elites with the rural areas getting more marginalized.This paper follows the historical precedents of the rural transformation, such as the colonial depiction of Indian villages being resilient and fixed on their own means.After the Indian state gained independence, the land reforms and the Green Revolution were adopted to cope with agricultural stagnation and boost rural improvement.Although such developments led to increased agricultural output, they also contributed to social inequality, population destruction of the environment, and rural-urban migration.