Agrarian Development In Colonial India

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000408119

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Agrarian Development in Colonial India by Peter Robb Pdf

This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state. The book discusses British theories and policies of ‘improvement’, comparing them with Bihar’s agricultural practice and socio-economic conditions to draw conclusions about rural impoverishment. Following on from his earlier book, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort on the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, the author also presents case studies on famines, debts, canal and village irrigation, flood-protection and the cultivation and production of indigo, opium and sugar. He analyses extensive archival material to reflect on property law, scientific interventions, cropping patterns, trade and intermediaries. He examines the economic role of governments, Eurocentric development theories and the complex impact of development policy on agriculture and society in Bihar. The book will be of interest to academics and students of colonial history, modern Indian history, agrarian studies, economic history, sociology, and development studies. It will also be useful to development practitioners and researchers working on the history of agrarian conditions and public policy.

Author : Kaoru Sugihara,Peter G. Robb,Haruka Yanagisawa
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 070070471X

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Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India by Kaoru Sugihara,Peter G. Robb,Haruka Yanagisawa Pdf

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.

Author : Deepak Kumar,Bipasha Raha
Publisher : Ratna Sagar
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9384092819

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TILLING THE LAND by Deepak Kumar,Bipasha Raha Pdf

This volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of new knowledge as well as attempts at modernization, and the involvement and perception of the key historical players and agricultural pioneers who initiated the process of transformation of the system of agrarian production and the creation of a new agrarian knowledge base against the backdrop of burgeoning Western scientific knowledge. Going beyond the scope of work of those who have written agrarian histories of colonial India focussing primarily on issues related to control over land, organization of agrarian production, agrarian relations, rural credit and agrarian commercial network, this volume attempts to examine the productionist discourse in the colonial period as well as throws new light on hitherto unexplored issues related to the colonial impact on indigenous agrarian systems.

Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geschichte
ISBN : 8131716880

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Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India by B. B. Chaudhuri Pdf

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520369108

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The Limited Raj by Anand A. Yang Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009588364

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Credit, Markets, and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India by Sugata Bose Pdf

In nationalist discourse, indebtedness was evidence of peasant impoverishment caused by high levels of state revenue demand. Twentieth-century British officials inverted the poverty thesis: it was not poverty but prosperity - the increased power to borrow - that led to the accumulating volume of debt.

Author : Eric Stokes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521216842

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The Peasant and the Raj by Eric Stokes Pdf

These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central focus of the book is directed to peasant agitation and violence and four of the studies look at the agrarian explosion that formed the background to the 1857 Mutiny. The essays give a coherent historical treatment of the Indian peasant world, and the paperback edition of this successful book will be of interest to the student of peasant studies and to the sociologist as well as to development economists and agronomists generally.

Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521266947

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Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital by Sugata Bose Pdf

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

Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032740808

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Growth, Stagnation Or Decline? by Sumit Guha Pdf

The question of growth and stagnation in Indian agriculture over the colonial period which is the subject of this volume, has been central to the debates on the impact of colonialism. The early estimates of George Blyn and Sivasubramoniam offered a gloomy scenario of twentieth century Indian agriculture, with yields failing to keep pace with population. This pessimistic picture was subsequently questioned in two ways. Disputing the reliability of agricultural statistics, historians suggested that no calculation of trends in yields was possible. Others recalculated the figures and doubted the basis of Blyn's pessimism. One commentator, Alan Heston, argued that the apparent downward trend in yields was the result of flawed estimation procedures, and needed to be revised.

Author : Bertram Hughes Farmer
Publisher : London ; New York : published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs by Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89041960543

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Agricultural Colonization in India Since Independence by Bertram Hughes Farmer Pdf

This Book Is A Comprehensive Study Of The Agricultural Colonization Of Wasteland In India Since Independence And Explores A Number Of Relevant Themes-Varying From The Resources For And Hazards Of Colonization To The Economic And Social Problems Of Colonization Schemes, Botably Problems Of Land Tenure And Of Agricultural Improvement. It Also Throws New Light On A Number Of Subjects Of Great Moment, Such As The Ideology And Land Policy Of The Congress Party Before And After Independence; Alternative Strategies Of Agricultural Development, And The Relationship Between Rural Poverty, Government Policy, And Agrarian Unrest.

Author : Sakti Padhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015052259218

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Land Relations and Agrarian Development in India by Sakti Padhi Pdf

Author : David E. Ludden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012415696

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Agricultural Production and Indian History by David E. Ludden Pdf

This book looks at agricultural production in colonial India, as well as its historiography then and now. It consists of nine major essays on these themes. These are tied together by the editor's introduction. This book will interest all scholars of India's agrarian and colonial history.

Author : Eric Stokes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1316177920

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The Peasant and the Raj by Eric Stokes Pdf

These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central focus of the book is directed to peasant agitation and violence and four of the studies look at the agrarian explosion that formed the background to the 1857 Mutiny. The essays give a coherent historical treatment of the Indian peasant world, and the paperback edition of this successful book will be of interest to the student of peasant studies and to the sociologist as well as to development economists and agronomists generally.

Author : Peter G. Robb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067656176

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Peasants, Political Economy, and Law by Peter G. Robb Pdf

In this collection written over a period of almost two decades, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, property law, and commercial production; and the emergence of political identities. He investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, "capitalist" agriculture, and definitions of labor in relation to the British Empire.

Author : Akhil Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056455457

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Postcolonial Developments by Akhil Gupta Pdf

Shows how the language and institutions of development are central to the postcolonial condition through a study of the effects of the green revolution on particular Indian localities.