Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India /
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial state. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVII, 269 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230510517 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9780230510517 |