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Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947

By Sugata Bose

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521053625, 9780521053624, 0521304482, 9780521304481, 9780511559822
LCC
HD875 .B67 1986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11665114 bytes)
Series
Cambridge South Asian Studies
Edition
1
Pages
320\312
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general and about the effects of international economic fluctuations on primary producing countries. Dr Bose develops a general typology of systems of agrarian production in Bengal to show how these responded to different types of pressure from the world economy, and treats in detail the effects of the world Depression on Bengal. Separate chapters are devoted to the themes of agrarian conflict and religious strife in east Bengal, the agrarian dimension of mass nationalism in west Bengal and sharecroppers agitations in the frontier regions. The conclusion attempts a synthesis of the typology of agrarian social structure and the periodisation of peasant politics, placing this in the wider context of agrarian societies and protest in other parts of India and in South-east Asia.

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