num_pages: 342
description: This study of the Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu challenges the conventional view that subsistence, isolation, and immobility characterized Indian villages before 'modern' times. Exmanining the agrarian history of Tirunelveli during the millennium before 1900, David Ludden shows that peasantcomminities not only transformed rural society but shaped states and empires, including British India. This edition also has a new preface.
language: English
title: Early Capitalism and Local History in South India
titlecomplete: Early Capitalism and Local History in South India (Oxford India Paperbacks)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press