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Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India) - Softcover

Book 18 of 21: The New Cambridge History of India

Bose, Sugata

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9780521033220: Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India)
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ISBN 10: 0521033225 ISBN 13: 9780521033220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

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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This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change over the long term during the colonial and post-colonial eras.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521033225
ISBN 13 
9780521033220
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224
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