Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India, Volume 8

acreage adivasi affected agrarian agriculture areas argued Assam Awadh Bengal Bihar bondage bonded labour British rule capital cash crops caste cent colonial commercial considerable cotton creditors crucial cultivation cultural debt decisive decline Delhi dependence Depression developments districts dominant ecological eighteenth century especially famine farming forest gradually grain groups growing growth Gujarat Ibid income increase India indigo instance investment irrigation jute kunbis land revenue landowners large-scale Madras Presidency Maharashtra major Maratha mirasidars moneylenders Mughal munda nature nineteenth century notable op.cit opium organization Orissa partly peasant agriculture peasant economy peasant produces peasant village peasantry political population pre-colonial production pulayas Punjab question reason reclamation region rent revenue demand rice rich peasants rise role ryots ryotwari santal scarcity settlements shifting cultivation small peasant social society stable State's sugar sugarcane supply Tamil Nadu tenancy tion tivation trade trend wheat zamindars