Land and Society in India: Agrarian Relations in Colonial North BiharAn Empirical Study, Especially Of Nineteenth Century North Bihar, This Book Provides A Thorough And Consistent Analysis Of The Social And Economic Formation, Class Structure And Relations In The Rural Economy. This Work Offers An Exhaustive Synthesis Of The Social Classes And Their Role In The Agrarian Economy, And Is Important For Understanding The Society And Economy Of The Most Fertile Region Of The Indo-Gangetic Plain, North Bihar. The Author Integrates Society, Land, Capital, Production, Rent And Labour With Broad Historical Perspectives In India In General, And North Bihar In Particular, On The Basis Of His Studies Of The British Records And Allied Sources. |
Contents
Dominant Social Classes and the Emergence of Landlords | 27 |
The Role of | 76 |
Land Tenure Land Rent and the Agrarian Social Structure | 127 |
Agricultural Labour and the Lower Orders of Agrarian | 158 |
Common terms and phrases
abwabs acres administration agrarian society agricultural labourers agricultural production annas batwara Bengal Presidency Bengal Tenancy Act Bettiah bhadoi Bhumihar British Calcutta cent cesses Champaran Chaudhuri commercialisation condition cultivated land Darbhanga Delhi distraint dominant Dufferin Report enhancement of rent Famine foodgrains Government of Bengal growth Hathwa raj important increased intermediaries khudkasht raiyats koeri land revenue landholders landless labourers landlord and tenant late nineteenth century lower classes mahajans maliks Mughal Muzaffarpur nineteenth century non-occupancy raiyats north Bihar districts occupancy raiyats occupancy rights officials paid partition Patna Division patwaris period Permanent Settlement Peter Robb population proprietary rights proprietors Purnea rabi crops raiyati rights record of rights relations rent rates rice rich peasants rural S.R. Muzaffarpur Saran Saran district settlement operations Shahabad social and economic status Stevenson-Moore survey and settlement tenants-at-will tenure holders thika thikadars upper castes various village wages zamindari estates zamindars zirat land