Walter Hauser

The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, 1929-1942 (eBook, PDF)

A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering 1961 study by Walter Hauser, tracks the history of the Bihar peasant movement as it both influenced and was buffeted by national and international politics.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000000399
• Artikelnr.: 55438763

Autorenporträt

Walter Hauser is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia, where he taught modern South Asian history from 1960 to 1995. While at Virginia he trained numerous postgraduate students and built the South Asian Studies Program. Since the mid-1990s he has produced, with his friend and collaborator Kailash Chandra Jha, three major scholarly translations of the writings of the social reformer, peasant leader, and Dasnami sannyasi, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Agrarian Condition of Society (The Province and its Population
The Land System
Zamindars and Peasants
Tenancy and Rent) 2. Formation of the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (Preliminary Developments
The Effects of Civil Disobedience
Agrarian Policy of the Bihar Congress
Emergence of the Kisan Sabha
Socialism and the
Kisan Sabha) 3. Character of the Movement (Leadership
Organization and Method
Ideology and Program) 4. The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha and the Congress (The Left-Right Controversy and the 1937 Elections
The Ministry and the Kisan Sabha: Compromise and Conflict) 5. National Politics and the Decline of the Bihar Kisan Sabha 6. Conclusions