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Local agrarian societies in colonial India : Japanese perspectives

edited by Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, and Haruka Yanagisawa

(Collected papers on South Asia, no. 11)

Curzon Press, 1996

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 1.1: Distinctive Aspects of Rural Production in India: The Colonial Period 1
  • 1.2: Internal Forces of Change in Agriculture: India and Japan Compared 1
  • 2: The Mirasi System and Local Society in Pre-Colonial South India 1
  • 3: The Peasantry of Northern Bengal in the Late Eighteenth Century 1
  • 4.1: Elements of Upward Mobility for Agricultural Labourers in Tamil Districts, 1865-1925 1
  • 4.2: A Comparison with the Japanese Experience
  • 5: Regional Pattern of Land Transfer in Late Colonial Bengal 1
  • 6.1: Famines, Epidemics and Mortality in Northern India, 1870-1921 1
  • 6.2: Famines and Epidemics: A Comparison between India and Japan
  • 7.1: Technology and Labour Absorption in the Indigenous Indian Sugar Industry: An Analysis of Appropriate Technology 1
  • 7.2: Technology of the Indian Sugar Industry From an International Perspective
  • 8: Situating the Malabar Tenancy Act, 1930 1

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