Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 196 p)
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digital, PDF file
Edition:
Online-Ausg. c2008 Cambridge histories online
Series Statement:
The new Cambridge history of India III, 2
Content:
This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the long term between 1770 and more recent times. By integrating the histories of land and capital, he examines the relationship between capitalist 'development' of the wider economy under colonial rule and agrarian continuity and change. Drawing most of his empirical evidence from rural Bengal, the author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia. Thus, this study stands on its own in the field of modern Indian social and economic history in its chronological sweep and comparative context and makes the complex subject of India's peasantry accessible to students and the interested non-specialist
Content:
Introduction -- Ecology and demography -- Commercialization and colonializm -- Property and production -- Appropriation and exploitation -- Resistance and consciousness -- Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on 10 July, 2009)
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 051146875X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511468759
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521266949
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521266949