Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

Japanese Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780700704712
• ISBN-10: 070070471X
• Artikelnr.: 31585351

Autorenporträt

Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

Inhaltsangabe

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