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Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Contributor(s): Bose, Sugata (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521266947     ISBN-13: 9780521266949
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $119.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1993
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
Dewey: 305.563
LCCN: 92012666
Series: New Cambridge History of India
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.33" W x 9.27" L (1.07 lbs) 222 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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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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