Rural India
Subtitle: land, power, and society under British rule
By: edited by Peter Robb.
Contributors: Robb, Peter; University of London. Centre of South Asian Studies.
Series: Collected papers on South Asia,; no. 6
Publisher: Curzon Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Land tenure -- India -- History -- Congresses.; Villages -- India -- History -- Congresses.; India -- Rural conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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; title: 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.