Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
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| Author | : D. Hall-Matthews |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2005-06-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230510517 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230510515 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India by : D. Hall-Matthews
Book excerpt: 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.
