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The peasant and the Raj : Studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in Colonial India

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1978Description: 308pISBN:
  • 9780521216845
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.440000 STO
Contents:
Table of contents 1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social stagnation?; 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early nineteenth century; 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern India in the early nineteenth century; 4. The land revenue systems of the North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the official mind; 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion; 6. Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district; 7. Rural revolt in the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts; 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab; 9. The structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860-1948; 10. Dynamism and enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension; 11. Peasants, moneylenders and colonial rule: an excursion into Central India; 12. The return of the peasant to South Asian history.
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Table of contents

1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social stagnation?; 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early nineteenth century; 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern India in the early nineteenth century; 4. The land revenue systems of the North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the official mind; 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion; 6. Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district; 7. Rural revolt in the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts; 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab; 9. The structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860-1948; 10. Dynamism and enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension; 11. Peasants, moneylenders and colonial rule: an excursion into Central India; 12. The return of the peasant to South Asian history.

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