A concise encyclopaedia of North Indian peasant life
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A concise encyclopaedia of North Indian peasant life
(South Asian colonial archives, 1)
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2005
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
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Includes passages in Bhojpuri (Bhojpuri in roman also)
Prweviously published: A glossary of north Indian peasant life. Delhi : Oxford, 1989
"The present revised and enl. ed. consists of the edited text of William Crooke, 'Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western provinces and Oudh (Allahabad, 1879)', ..."-- preface to the rev. ed.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Table of Contents
- Editors Preface to the Revised Edition
- Editors Preface to the First Edition
- Editors Introduction to the Revised Edition
- Title Page of Materials (1879)
- William Crookes Preface to Materials
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Illustrations
- Illustrations
- Part I: Being the Text of William Crookes Materials for a Rural and Agricultural Glossary of the North Western Provinces and Oudh: IX: Labour Advances, Wages and Perquisities
- X: Land Tenures
- XI: The Native House
- XII: Food
- XIII
- Ceremonies of Rural Life
- XIV
- Trade and Moneylending
- XV: Weights and Measures
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index. Part II: Materials on Peasant Production from J.R. Reids Azamgarh Settlement Report: System of Agriculture
- Methods of Irrigation
- Gharra Irrigation
- The Kinds of Produce and Methods of Raising Them
- Early and Broadcaste Rice
- Transplanted Rice
- The Hot Weather Marsh Rice (Boro)
- Harjins
- Kharif Harjins: Rabi Harjins: The Manufacture of Sugar From the Cane
- Indigo
- Poppy
- The Preparation of Crude Opium
- Poppy Oil
- Produce Included under Vegetables
- Tobacco
- Betel Leaf
- Total Produe
- The Amout of Food Grains
- The Amount of Fodder
- The Value of the Produce
- The Value of Produce per Acre
- Soil Fertility
- Comparative Prices of Produce
- the Dealer in Produce or Mahajan
- Village Servants
- Part III: Selections from the Bhojpuri Dialect: Conversation
- Fables
- Bhojpuri Songs
- Part IV: Rustic Speech and a Rural Glossary from Azamgarh: Notes on the Dialect Current in Azamgarh
- Note [on the Azamgarh Glossary]
- Azamgarh Glossary.
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