PEASANT LABOUR AND COLONIAL CAPITAL by Sugata Bose ( 9780521266949 )

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Title:

PEASANT LABOUR AND COLONIAL CAPITAL
RURAL BENGAL SINCE 1770

By:

Sugata Bose

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Hardback

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0521266947

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9780521266949

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 March, 1993

Series:

The New Cambridge History of India No. III. 2

Pages:

222

Description:

A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.

Synopsis:

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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4 b/w illus. 8 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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