Peasant radicalism in nineteenth century Bengal
Subtitle: the Faraizi, Indigo, and Pabna movements
By: Nurul H. Choudhury.
Contributors: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
Publisher: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dhaka
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Peasant uprisings -- India -- Bengal -- History.; Indigo industry -- India -- Bengal -- History.; Radicalism -- India -- Bengal -- History.; Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th century.
Other titles: Peasant radicalism in 19th century Bengal
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Toronto, 1991).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Theories of Peasant Movements in South Asia; title: Agrarian Setting of Bengal in the late; title: 18th and early 19th Centuries; title: The Faraizi Movement -; title: The indigo Movement; title: The Pabna Movement; title: General Observations; title: 1. FARAIZI, INDIGO AND PABNA MOVEMENTS:; title: THE BACKGROUND; title: Pre-colonial and Colonial Land Tenure Systems; title: Colonial Commercial Policy; title: Commercialization of Agriculture,; title: jotedars and Socio-economic Change; title: 2. THE FARAIZI MOVEMENT; title: Islamic Ideology and Political Change; title: The Faraizi Movement: A Historical Overview; title: Anti-Faraizi Coalition: Zamindars, Planters and the Raj; title: Faraizi Quest for Autonomy; title: Strategy of the Movement: Non-cooperation; title: Strategy of the Movement: Violence; title: 3. THE INDIGO MOVEMENT; title: History of Indigo Cultivation in !engal; title: Planters, Zamindars and Ryots; title: Dynamics of Indig'o esistance Movement; title: Missionaries and Indigo Ryots; title: British Indian Association and Indigo Ryots; title: Individual Magistrates and Indigo Ryots; title: Indigo Ryots' Defiance; title: Leadership of the Movement; title: 4. THE PABNA MOVEMENT; title: Rack-renting; title: Grievances of Occupancy Tenants; title: Impact of Jute Cultivation; title: Organization and Leadership of the Movement; title: Government Policy towards the Movement; title: CONCLUSION; title: APPENDICES; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: INDEX.