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Author : S. Jeyaseela Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Land, Peasantry, and Peasant Life in India written by S. Jeyaseela Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Author : Tariq Omar Ali
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202575
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book A Local History of Global Capital written by Tariq Omar Ali and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Author : Judith Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344 written by Judith Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.
Author : Rolf Bauer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385185
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India written by Rolf Bauer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state’s power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.
Author : Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108695051
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Hungry Nation written by Benjamin Robert Siegel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.
Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794229
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Pig Earth written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters f rest; of a message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, but an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
Author : Anthony P. D'Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192510924
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Land Question in India written by Anthony P. D'Costa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India. Instead of re-engaging in the rich transition debate in which the transformation of agriculture is seen as a necessary historical step to usher in dynamic capitalist (or socialist) development, this collection critically examines the centrality of land in contemporary development discourse in India. Consequently, the focus is on the role of the state in pushing a process of dispossession of peasants through direct expropriation for developmental purposes such as acquisition of land by (local) states for infrastructure development and to support accumulation strategies of private business through industrialization. Land in India is sought for non-agricultural purposes such as purchasing land to reduce risk and real estate development. Land is also central to tribal communities (adivasis), whose livelihoods depend on it and on a moral economy that is independent of any price-driven markets. Adivasis tend to hold on to such property, not as individual owners for profit, but for collective security and to protect a way of life. Thus land, notwithstanding its role in the accumulation process, has been, and continues to be, a turbulent arena in which classes, castes, and communities are in conflict with each other, with the state, and with capital, jockeying to determine the terms and conditions of land transactions or their prevention, through both market and non-market mechanisms. The volume goes beyond the traditional political economy of the agrarian transition question, and deals with, inter alia, distributional conflicts arising from acquisition of land by the state for capital accumulation on the one hand and its commodification on the other. It provides new analytical insights into the land acquisition processes, their legal-institutional and ethical implications, and the multifaceted regional diversity of acquisition experiences in India.
Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521266949
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital written by Sugata Bose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
Author : Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai
Publisher : Bombay : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Peasant Struggles in India written by Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai and published by Bombay : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles.
Author : Y. Kotsonis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230376304
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Making Peasants Backward written by Y. Kotsonis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent populations could participate in their own transformation.
Author : Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325591
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book A Century of Protests written by Arupjyoti Saikia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India.
Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716885
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India written by B. B. Chaudhuri and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanjay Ruparelia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136816488
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Understanding India's New Political Economy written by Sanjay Ruparelia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations. Filling a gap in existing literature, the book goes beyond looking at the transformations in isolation, managing to: • Explain the empirical linkages between these three phenomena • Provide an account that integrates the insights of separate disciplinary perspectives • Explain their distinct but possibly related causes and the likely consequences of these central transformations taken together By seeking to explain the causal relationships between these central transformations through a coordinated conversation across different disciplines, the dynamics of India’s new political economy are captured. Chapters focus on the political, economic and social aspects of India in their current and historical context. The contributors use new empirical research to discuss how India’s multidimensional story of economic growth, social welfare and democratic deepening is likely to develop. This is an essential text for students and researchers of India's political economy and the growth economies of Asia.
Author : Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (448 download)
Download or read book The A'in-i Akbari written by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hardiman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Feeding the Baniya written by David Hardiman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides important insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India--that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurers, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both economic and ideological.
Author : John Langdon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525084
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation written by John Langdon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the introduction of the horse as a replacement for oxen in English farming.
Author : Vanashree Tripathi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192871579
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Rural India and Peasantry in Hindi Stories written by Vanashree Tripathi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural narratives after Premchand remained unnoticed because of not being written in English. Rural India and Peasantry: Ethnography in stories after Premchand is a study of literary representation of rural life in a vast expanse of land designated as the Hindi Heartland. What lends unique strength to this work is that after Premchand, fictional narrative has not really been dealt with such scholarly seriousness or contextualized in the socio-economic scenario of the rural world and peasantry. More than thirty stories discussed in ten chapters, inherit a strong tradition of peasant narratives since the times of Premchand, exposing the reader to an intricate array of messy complications and contingencies, the small peasantry and the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. Exploring non- canonical rural stories in Hindi, unfolds a spectrum of ethnic-cultural and psychological biographies about the evolving rural scenario in the democratic India of our times. The substantial reference to concrete facts and data vindicate the realistic strain of the work. It would set a new example of interdisciplinary scholarship and open up new vistas of further scholarship, especially in the Cultural studies. The authentically translated excerpts, transcribe the spirit of rural India.
