Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

Taylor & Francis

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. > 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. > 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 La