Rural India
Subtitle: land, power, and society under British rule
By: edited by Peter Robb
Contributors: University of London. Centre of South Asian Studies
Series: Collected papers on South Asia -- no. 6
Publisher: Segment Book Distributors
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Rural conditions; Congresses; Land tenure; History; Villages
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held in Dec. 1980 under the auspices of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the London School of Oriental and African Studies.

Originally published: London : Curzon Press, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Land and society / peter Robb; title: Idiom and ideology in early nineteenth-century south India / Burton Stein; title: A note on the term "land control" / Dharma Kumar; title: Land, power, and market / Jacques Pouchepadass    State, peasant, and money-lender in late nineteenth-century Bihar / Peter Robb; title: Between British raj and Saran Raiyat /Anand A. Yang; title: The origins of fragmentation of landholdings in British India / Neil Charlesworth; title: Plague and the Indian village, 1896-1914 / I.J. catanach; title: Muslim political mobilization in rural Punjab, 1937-46 / Ian Talbot; title: The rural world of Tarashankar Banerjee / Rajat K. Ray.