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Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India Peter Robb

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India By Peter Robb

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India by Peter Robb

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The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India Summary

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives by Peter Robb

The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

About Peter Robb

Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

Table of Contents

1.1: Distinctive Aspects of Rural Production in India: The Colonial Period 1; 1.2: Internal Forces of Change in Agriculture: India and Japan Compared 1; 2: The Mirasi System and Local Society in Pre-Colonial South India 1; 3: The Peasantry of Northern Bengal in the Late Eighteenth Century 1; 4.1: Elements of Upward Mobility for Agricultural Labourers in Tamil Districts, 1865-1925 1; 4.2: A Comparison with the Japanese Experience; 5: Regional Pattern of Land Transfer in Late Colonial Bengal 1; 6.1: Famines, Epidemics and Mortality in Northern India, 1870-1921 1; 6.2: Famines and Epidemics: A Comparison between India and Japan; 7.1: Technology and Labour Absorption in the Indigenous Indian Sugar Industry: An Analysis of Appropriate Technology 1; 7.2: Technology of the Indian Sugar Industry From an International Perspective; 8: Situating the Malabar Tenancy Act, 1930 1

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NPB9780700704712
9780700704712
070070471X
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives by Peter Robb
Peter Robb
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-04-11
410
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