The essays collected here focus on peasant responses to the spread of market-oriented economic systems in the colonial era. Some explore the ways in which the colonial state sought to draw cultivators into export production, others the processes by which intermediary groups, particularly immigrant and indigenous moneylenders, both facilitated this process and helped to undermine the agrarian systems in which it occurred. More than half are devoted to everyday avoidance protest patterns in both the pre-colonial and colonial periods, which it is argued were far more typical peasant responses to state demands and market dislocations than the revolutionary movements that had all but monopolized scholarly attention until the early 1980s.
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Peasant resistance - from footdragging to rebellion: from avoidance to confrontation - peasant protest in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia; from footdragging to flight - the evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in South and Southeast Asia; "Moral economy" or "contest state"? peasant responses to elite demands in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia; tactics versus strategies in peasant responses to elite demands in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia; tactics versus strategies in peasant protest response; bandits, monks and pretender kings - patterns of peasant resistance in colonial Burma; concepts of the moral economy and the study of commercialism in Southeast Asia; South Asian protest in comparative perspective; peasant movements and Millenarianism. Colonialism, capitalism and peasant responses: imperialist rhetoric and modern histiography - the case of lower Burma before and after conquest; the village and the state in Vietnam and Burma - an open and shut case?; colonization, commercial agriculture and the destruction of the deltaic rainforests of British Burma; the Ryotwari in lower Burma - the establishment and decline of a peasant proprietor system; immigrant Asians and the economic impact of European imperialism - the role of the South Indian Chettiars in British Burma; the annex of the Raj - the Anglo-Indian interlude in Burmese history, circa 1826-1941; ethnic pluralism and conflict on the frontiers of South Asian migration; market demands versus imperial control - colonial contradictions and the origins of agrarian protest in South and Southeast Asia.
