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The New Cambridge History of India, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital~ Rural Bengal since 1770

By Sugata Bose

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0521266947, 9780521266949
LCC
DS436 .N47 1987 pt. 3, vol.2,HD1537.I4 .N47 1
Open Library ID
OL1710757M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13937570 bytes)
Series
The New Cambridge History of India 3-2
Volume
volume 3, Part 2
Pages
212\212
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
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Description

This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the long term between 1770 and more recent times. By integrating the histories of land and capital, he examines the relationship between capitalist 'development' of the wider economy under colonial rule and agrarian continuity and change. Drawing most of his empirical evidence from rural Bengal, the author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia. Thus, this study stands on its own in the field of modern Indian social and economic history in its chronological sweep and comparative context and makes the complex subject of India's peasantry accessible to students and the interested non-specialist.

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