Feeding the Baniya : peasants and usurers in Western India

Author(s)

• Hardiman, David

Bibliographic Information

Feeding the Baniya : peasants and usurers in Western India

（Oxford India paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 2000

• : pbk.

Note

First published : 1996

Bibliography [338]-351

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India - that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurer, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both economic and ideological.

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Details

• NCID: BA5347977X
• ISBN:
  • 0195651995
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Delhi ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 368 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 332.8309547091734
  • NDC9 : 338.77
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Usury -- India, Western
  • LCSH : India, Western -- Rural conditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0711565X