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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Peasant Labour And Colonial Capital by Sugata Bose
This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography commercialization class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the long term between 1770 and more recent times. By integrating the histories of land and capital he examines the relationship between capitalist development of the wider economy under colonial rule and agrarian continuity and change. Drawing most of his empirical evidence from rural Bengal the author makes comparisons with regional agrarian histories of other parts of South Asia. Thus this study stands on its own in the field of modern Indian social and economic history in its chronological sweep and comparative context and makes the complex subject of Indias peasantry accessible to students and the interested nonspecialist.