Contributors Preface1. Introduction 2. The Plantation System and Village Structure in British Ceylon3. Wage-Gathering4. Economic Dislocation in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Uttar Pradesh5. Rural Labour in the Bombay Textile Industry and the Articulation of Modes of Organization6. The Role of the Broker in Rural India7. Two Karnataka Villages and the Outside World8. ‘Decentralized’ Planning in a Centralized Economy9. International Rice Research and the Problems of Rice Growing in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar