Colonializing agriculture: the myth of Punjab exceptionalism
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1. Verfasser: Mukherjee, Mridula (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New delhi Sage Publications 2005
Schriftenreihe:Sage series in modern Indian history 9
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Beschreibung:Companion to: Peasants in India's non-violent revolution. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-206) and index
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?
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-rent
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 209 pages)
ISBN:9788132102632
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