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100			_aBose, Sugata
245			_aNew Cambridge history of India peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770
260			_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2006.
300			_axvi, 226p.: _bill.; pbk.: _c22cm
520			_aThis 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
650			_aHistory
650			_aSouth Asian History
650			_aColonization
650			_aRural Condition
650			_aIndustries
650			_aBengal History
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