- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part. A predominant theme is control over land and people. Others are the impact of British rule, the political role of local networks and ties, and the response to and internalising of external stimuli. Attempts are made to examine the concepts employed by scholars in relation to the perceptions of the villagers and similarly to interpret economic and social data in radical ways. This book will be of interest to student of South Asian studies, history, economics and agriculture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction. Land and Society: The British ‘Transformation’ in India
- 2 Idiom and Ideology in Early Nineteenth-Century South India
- 3 A Note on the Term ‘Land Control’
- 4 Land, Power and Market: The Rise of the Land Market in Gangetic India
- 5 State, Peasant and Money-Lender in Late Nineteenth-Century Bihar: Some Colonial Inputs
- 6 Between British Raj and Saran Raiyat: The Development of Local Control Institutions in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 7 The Origins of Fragmentation of Landholdings in British India: A Comparative Examination
- 8 Plague and the Indian Village, 1896–1914
- 9 Muslim Political Mobilization in Rural Punjab 1937–46
- 10 The Rural World of Tarashankar Banerjee: Social Divisions and Psychological Cross-Currents