Neil Charlesworth

Peasants and Imperial Rule

Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850 1935

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A regional study of the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526401
• ISBN-10: 052152640X
• Artikelnr.: 22333753

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and tables
Preface
Note on technical terms and references
Maps
1. Introduction: the peasant in India and Bombay presidency
2. The village in 1850: land tenure, social structure and revenue policy
3. The village in 1850: land and agriculture
4. Indebtedness and the Deccan Riots of 1875
5. Continuity and change in the rural economy, 1850-1900
6. The Bombay peasantry, 1850-1900: social stability or social stratification?
7. The agricultural economy, 1900-1935: the critical watershed?
8. The impact of government policy, 1880-1935
9. The peasant and politics in the early twentieth century
10. Conclusions: the problem of differential commercialisation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.