Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947
Material type: TextPublication details: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1986Description: 306pISBN: 9780521053624Subject(s): Peasants -- India -- Bengal -- History | Bengal (India) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.563Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 305.563 BOS/A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 051165 |
List of maps; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Agrarian Economy and Society: Structure and Trends: 1. Introduction: a typology of agrarian social structure in early twentieth-century Bengal; 2. Subsistence and the market I; 3. Subsistence and the market II: the peasants' produce; 4. The peasantry in debt: the working and rupture of systems of rural credit relations; 5. Peasants into proletarians? The market in land and the question of change in the social organisation of production; Part II. Peasants and Politics: 6. Agrarian class conflict, nationalism and communalism in east Bengal; 7. Agrarian relations and mass nationalism in west Bengal; 8. Sharecroppers' agitations in the frontier regions; Conclusion; Glossary; Select bibliography
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