Format:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700714087
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9781136848513
Content:
This book analyses the socio-economic changes brought about by colonial rule in a frontier area of Bengal, Jalpaiguri
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- One Continuity and Change in Frontier North Bengal c.1765-1865 -- Non-sedentary production and inter-community exchange: the Dooars and Rangpur to 1865 -- The pre-British system of surplus extraction: the Dooars, 1765-1865 -- Extending and taming the frontiers, Baikanthapur and beyond, 1765-1820 -- Consolidation and conflict: North Rangpur, 1765-1850 -- Two A Tribal Society in Transition? c.1700-1890 -- Dissemination of puranic Hinduism, 1600-1890 -- The inroads of 'Islam', 1700-1890 -- The nature of pre-colonial society, c.1900 -- Three Foundation of the Colonial Structure, c.1865-1895 -- The extension of a tradition: the land revenue settlement in the Dooars, 1865-1895 -- Introducing new avenues of resource utilisation: formation of state forests and tea gardens -- Immigration and emigration: a new demographic structure for the Dooars, 1870-1900 -- Four Sustaining the Colonial Structure: Nature of Authority and Control, 1890-1947 -- The political economy of control in the tea gardens -- Planters and the hierarchy of power -- The sardars and the management of production -- The source of power and the nature of control in the agrarian sector -- Five Formation and Expression of New Identities -- Sanskritisation or the emergence of a middle class consciousness? Consolidation of the Rajbanshi-Kshatriya identity, 1891-1935 -- In search of 'pure' Islam, 1890-1937 -- Six The Temporal Dynamics of the Colonial Structure, 1905-1947 -- Land and agriculture: commercialisation and polarisation to 1916 -- The tea industry: growth, conflict and adjustment, 1910-1929 -- Confronting the Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Creating conditions for change: The Second World War and after, 1939-1947
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Seven Opposing Colonial Rule: 'Nationalism' and Popular Movements, 1905-1948 -- Congress and the Jotedars, 1920-1942 -- The Kisan Sabha, Communists and the Adhiars, 1939-1947 -- Resistance without patrons: tea garden workers, 1905-1947 -- Entry of the leaders: a new direction to labour resistance? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Ray, Subhajyoti Transformations on the Bengal Frontier Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780700714087
Language:
English
Keywords:
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