Title: Peasants, famine and the state in colonial western India
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.
Subjects: Agriculture, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Famines, Farmers, History, Peasantry, Social conditions, Peasants, india, Agriculture, economic aspects, india, Farmers, india, India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, India, social conditions, Peasants, Economic aspects
Places: Ahmadnagar (District), India
Time periods: British occupation, 1765-1947