The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, 1929-1942: A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement

ISBN-13: 9780367225971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 266 str.

Walter Hauser

Opis

This pioneering 1961 study by Walter Hauser, tracks the history of the Bihar peasant movement as it both influenced and was buffeted by national and international politics.
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Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Agrarian Condition of Society (The Province and its Population, The Land System, Zamindars and Peasants, Tenancy and Rent) 2. Formation of the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (Preliminary Developments, The Effects of Civil Disobedience, Agrarian Policy of the Bihar Congress, Emergence of the Kisan Sabha, Socialism and the, Kisan Sabha) 3. Character of the Movement (Leadership, Organization and Method, Ideology and Program) 4. The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha and the Congress (The Left-Right Controversy and the 1937 Elections, The Ministry and the Kisan Sabha: Compromise and Conflict) 5. National Politics and the Decline of the Bihar Kisan Sabha 6. Conclusions

O autorze

Walter Hauser is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia, where he taught modern South Asian history from 1960 to 1995. While at Virginia he trained numerous postgraduate students and built the South Asian Studies Program. Since the mid-1990s he has produced, with his friend and collaborator Kailash Chandra Jha, three major scholarly trans­lations of the writings of the social reformer, peasant leader, and Dasnami sannyasi, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.