Colonializing agriculture : the myth of Punjab exceptionalism
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Colonializing agriculture : the myth of Punjab exceptionalism
（Sage series in modern Indian history / series editors, Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, 9）
Sage Publications, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[190]-206) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal landlords, rack-rented tenants, and struggling small-holders, who were forced to enlist in the army or migrate to enable their families to pay government taxes and to repay debts. Comparing Punjab with its supposed polar-opposite, the eastern region of Bengal and Bihar, Mridula Mukherjee demonstrates that Punjab too had begun to exhibit features typical of colonial under-development, such as stagnation of productive forces, intensification of semi-feudal relations, forced commercialisation and lack of capital investment in agriculture. The green revolution therefore was not the result of a continuity but actually because of a break with the colonial past.
Table of Contents
Series Editors` Preface
Preface
Introduction
Peasants as Tax-Payers
Peasants as Debtors
Peasants in the Market
Peasants as Classes
Capital Accumulation and Investment
Punjab and Eastern India: Polar Opposites or Treading the Same Path
Bibliography
Index
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