Eric Stokes

Peasant and the Raj (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central focus of the book is directed to peasant agitation and violence and four of the studies look at the agrarian explosion that formed the background to the 1857 Mutiny. The essays give a coherent historical treatment of the Indian peasant world, and the paperback edition of this successful book will be of interest to the student of peasant studies and to the sociologist as well as to development economists and agronomists generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 1980
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511865398
• Artikelnr.: 41495922

Inhaltsangabe

1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social
stagnation?; 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early
nineteenth century; 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern
India in the early nineteenth century; 4. The land revenue systems of the
North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the
official mind; 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian
nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion; 6. Nawab Walidad
Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district; 7. Rural revolt in
the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and
Muzaffarnagar districts; 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of
1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab; 9. The
structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860¿1948; 10. Dynamism and
enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension; 11.
Peasants, moneylenders and colonial rule: an excursion into Central India;
12. The return of the peasant to South Asian history.