Peasants, famine and the state in colonial western India
By: David Hall-Matthews.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Famines -- India -- Ahmadnagar (District); Peasantry -- India -- Ahmadnagar (District); Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India -- Ahmadnagar (District); Farmers -- India -- Ahmadnagar (District) -- Social conditions; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Description: "Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial state."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.