New Cambridge history of India peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770
Bose, Sugata
New Cambridge history of India peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770 - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xvi, 226p.: ill.; pbk.: 22cm
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.
Major study of Indian peasantry that provides both a critical synthesis of existing literature and offers an alternative interpretation of key themes
Author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia
Author is a leading academic on the economic and social history of modern South Asia
https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/history/south-asian-history/peasant-labour-and-colonial-capital-rural-bengal-1770?format=PB
9780521033220
History
South Asian History
Colonization
Rural Condition
Industries
Bengal History
954.1403 BOS
New Cambridge history of India peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770 - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xvi, 226p.: ill.; pbk.: 22cm
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.
Major study of Indian peasantry that provides both a critical synthesis of existing literature and offers an alternative interpretation of key themes
Author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia
Author is a leading academic on the economic and social history of modern South Asia
https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/history/south-asian-history/peasant-labour-and-colonial-capital-rural-bengal-1770?format=PB
9780521033220
History
South Asian History
Colonization
Rural Condition
Industries
Bengal History
954.1403 BOS
