Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese PerspectivesThe first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history. |
Contents
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compared | 48 |
The mirasi system and local society in precolonial | 77 |
The peasantry of northern Bengal in the late eighteenth | 146 |
in Tamil districts 18651925 | 199 |
Haruka Yanagisawa | 239 |
18701921 | 280 |
and Japan | 311 |
international perspective | 356 |
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Common terms and phrases
According acres agrarian agricultural amount average Bengal bighas Brahman British called cane castes cause cent century colonial competitiveness crop cultivation death district early economic epidemics established evidence example factories famine farm farmers figures forces grain granted half held History holdings important increase India indicates interests irrigated janmis Japan Japanese khand kind labour land landholders landlords late latter less Madras Malabar malaria mirasi mortality nineteenth century Note occupancy paddy paid pargana peasant period population production raiyats Rajshahi recipients recorded region relations rent Report result role rule rural Season settlement share shows social society Source South India structure sugar industry suggested Table tax-free land tenants tion transfer unit village wealthy zamindars