This book is an ethnographic study of the processes of agrarian change in the Malwa region of central India over the last forty years. It argues that both techno-managerial ways of understanding and evaluating agriculture as well as those which emphasize the lenses of caste, class and gender are inadequate in capturing the diverse processes at work in shaping the lives of rural people. By showing how people and their environs have reconfigured each other in producing the world they live in, this book suggests that both the social and the technical must be considered together to understand the specific trajectories of agrarian change and the possibilities of rural transformation.