Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935 - Brossura

Charlesworth, Neil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052152640X ISBN 13: 9780521526401

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

This book is a detailed historical study of agriculture and agrarian society in a major province of British India, the Bombay presidency. Its objective is to examine the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. Among the specific issues discussed by the author are the development of the British land revenue system, the pattern of expansion in commercial agriculture and the consequences in terms of ownership and organisation of land and agrarian social structure. Dr Charlesworth goes on to look at the role of government policy, the nature of peasant protest movements and the effects of the interwar depression. He concludes that significant long-term economic and social change did occur but that the highly 'differential' pattern to commercialisation prevented any structural transformation in the peasant economy and society.

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This book examines the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. It finds that significant long-term economic and social change did occur but that the highly 'differential' pattern to commercialisation prevented any structural transformation in the peasant economy and society.

Contenuti:

List of maps and tables; Preface; Note on technical terms and references; Maps; 1. Introduction: the peasant in India and Bombay presidency; 2. The village in 1850: land tenure, social structure and revenue policy; 3. The village in 1850: land and agriculture; 4. Indebtedness and the Deccan Riots of 1875; 5. Continuity and change in the rural economy, 1850–1900; 6. The Bombay peasantry, 1850–1900: social stability or social stratification?; 7. The agricultural economy, 1900–1935: the critical watershed?; 8. The impact of government policy, 1880–1935; 9. The peasant and politics in the early twentieth century; 10. Conclusions: the problem of differential commercialisation; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 052152640X
• ISBN 13: 9780521526401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336