Cotton and Famine in Berar, 1850-1900The special status of Berar as a prime cotton producing region within the British colonial empire in the nineteenth century in itself reveals its importance to the contemporary world economy. The dramatic takeover of the region and its linkup to the world market with the consequent socio-economic change the region underwent is a story which has waited long to be told. This work retrieves Berar from the colonial documents of the nineteenth century and critically places it in the historiography?of?South?Asia. The book examines the forceful impact of the industrial revolution on the material condition of the masses and how it changed social relations in the Berar society as a whole. It also studies the activities of the colonial state in Berar in the context of a world economy driven by the cotton crisis before and after the American Civil War. The great social and economic transformation which this region underwent is systematically analysed in relation to the broader framework of colonialism and imperialism. The study also addresses the critical issue of the deep and underlying connection between cotton, British imperialism and famine?in?Berar. This book should be of great interest to students of agrarian, environmental, economic and social history, political economy, colonialism, imperialism?and?popular?culture. |
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List of Tables | 8 |
The Balutedari System | 27 |
The Colonial State and Land Settlements | 52 |
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26 October A. C. Lyall agrarian Akola American Civil War Amraoti Badnera bales balutedari system Banjaras Berar Division Berar Land Revenue bhagindars Bombay British India Buldana District Buldana District Gazetteer bullocks Calcutta carts Census of Berar cent Central Provinces colonial government colonial officials Cotton Commissioner Cotton Department cotton economy cotton trade crop debt Deccan Department of Revenue Deputy Commissioner dimmat Ellichpur European firms export Fibre and Silk foodgrains full-pressed gins grain Haidarabad Assigned Districts Harry Rivett-Carnac Home Department hoondakurs Hyderabad Administration Hyderabad Affairs Hyderabad Assigned Districts indebtedness Khamgaon khandeshi khatedari system khatedars khel kunbis London lower caste Manchester Marathas marwari moneylenders Month of October Mughal Nagpur nineteenth century Oomraottee patels and patwaris Peasant pre-colonial Provinces and Berar railway Revenue and Agriculture sahukar settlement operations Silk Branch social submitted subtenants survey and settlement sutta Taluka Settlement Report tanda upper caste village waste lands West Berar