Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850–1935

Neil Charlesworth

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Neil Charlesworth

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2009
Print publication year:: 1985
Online ISBN:: 9780511563249
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563249

Subjects:: Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:: Cambridge South Asian Studies (32)

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This book is a detailed historical study of agriculture and agrarian society in a major province of British India, the Bombay presidency. Its objective is to examine the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. Among the specific issues discussed by the author are the development of the British land revenue system, the pattern of expansion in commercial agriculture and the consequences in terms of ownership and organisation of land and agrarian social structure. Dr Charlesworth goes on to look at the role of government policy, the nature of peasant protest movements and the effects of the interwar depression. He concludes that significant long-term economic and social change did occur but that the highly 'differential' pattern to commercialisation prevented any structural transformation in the peasant economy and society.

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Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850–1935

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of maps and tables
pp ix-ix

Preface
pp x-x

Note on technical terms and references
pp xi-xi

Maps
pp xii-xvi

1 - Introduction: the peasant in India and Bombay Presidency
pp 1-16

2 - The village in 1850: land tenure, social structure and revenue policy
pp 17-69

3 - The village in 1850: land and agriculture
pp 70-94

4 - Indebtedness and the Deccan Riots of 1875
pp 95-124

5 - Continuity and change in the rural economy, 1850–1900
pp 125-161

6 - The Bombay peasantry, 1850–1900: social stability or social stratification?
pp 162-203

7 - The agricultural economy, 1900–1935: the critical watershed?
pp 204-238

8 - The impact of government policy, 1880–1935
pp 239-267

9 - The peasant and politics in the early twentieth century
pp 268-291

10 - Conclusions: the problem of differential commercialisation
pp 292-300

Glossary
pp 301-302

Bibliography
pp 303-314

Index
pp 315-319

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