
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 1996
Book
Hardback
410 pages
978-0-7007-0471-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
778 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7007-0471-2 (9780700704712)
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Peter Robb | Kaoru Sugihara | Haruka Yanagisawa
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
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Peter Robb | Kaoru Sugihara | Haruka Yanagisawa
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
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Peter Robb | Kaoru Sugihara | Haruka Yanagisawa
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€64.49
Available for download
Persons
Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa
Content
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 Land Transfer in Late Colonial Bengal 1; 6.1: Famines, Epidemics and Mortality in Northern India, 1870-1921 1; 6.2: Famines and Epidemics: A Comparison between India and Japan; 7.1: Technology and Labour Absorption in the Indigenous Indian Sugar Industry: An Analysis of Appropriate Technology 1; 7.2: Technology of the Indian Sugar Industry From an International Perspective; 8: Situating the Malabar Tenancy Act, 1930 1