Rural India

ISBN-13: 9781032609973 / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Contributors Preface 1. Introduction 2. Idiom and Ideology in Early Nineteenth-Century South India 3. A Note on the Term ‘Land Control’ 4. Land, Power and Market 5. State, Peasant and Money-Lender in Late Nineteenth-Century Bihar 6. Between British Raj and Saran Raiyat 7. The Origins of Fragmentation of Landholdings in British India 8. Plague and the Indian Village, 1896-1914 9. Muslim Political Mobilization in Rural Punjab 1937-46 10. The Rural World of Tarashankar Banerjee

O autorze

Peter Robb