Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780700704712 | 070070471X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/11/1996

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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.

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Contributors and acknowledgements
Distinctive aspects of rural production in India: the colonial period	p. 1
Internal forces of change in agriculture: India and Japan compared	p. 48
The mirasi system and local society in pre-colonial South India	p. 77
The peasantry of northern Bengal in the late eighteenth century	p. 146
Elements of upward mobility for agricultural labourers in Tamil districts, 1865-1925	p. 199
A comparison with the Japanese experience	p. 239
Regional patterns of land transfer in late colonial Bengal	p. 250
Famines, epidemics and mortality in northern India, 1870-1921	p. 280
Famines and epidemics: a comparison between India and Japan	p. 311
Technology and labour absorption in the indigenous Indian sugar industry: an analysis of appropriate technology	p. 320
Technology of the Indian sugar industry from an international perspective	p. 356
Situating the Malabar Tenancy Act, 1930	p. 365
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