Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives

by Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700704712
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/11/1996
Series:	SOAS Collected Papers on South Asia , #11
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

Table of Contents

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