The Earthy Soil: Bombay Peasants and the Indian National Movement, 1919-1947Recent studies on the Raj in India have concentrated on the intricate and sometimes covoluted links between the apparently antagonistic forces of imperialism and nationalism in the subcontinent, particularly at the level of political organization and party practice. However it is becoming apparent that the burgeoning of nationalist forces in the century preceding Independence was not only in response to the West's political impact on India, but to its social and economic impact as well. Epstein here uses a detailed analysis of the economic and social changes Bombay underwent under British rule--the commercialization of agriculture, the concomitant emergence of increasingly market-oriented peasant communites from rural isolation into broader spheres of influence--to shed new light on the changing pattern of Congress success within the Bombay presidency after World War I. |
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Map of Bombay Presidency c 1925 | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 | 37 |
A Somewhat Awkward Outcome | 49 |
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Abstract of Intelligence agitation agrarian Agriculture in India Ahmedabad Ahmedabad District All-India Congress Committee Anavil Bardoli Belgaum Bombay countryside Bombay Police Abstract Bombay Presidency Borsad Brahmin British administration Broach cash-crop farmers castes cent civil disobedience Civil Disobedience Movement commercial farmers Congress Committee Papers cotton cultivators D. A. Low Deccan Desai Dharwar District Magistrate dominant East Khandesh East Khandesh District economic example farming Fortnightly Report Gandhi Government of Bombay Government of India Gujarat Harold H Home Department Home Poll ibid Intelligence 1921 Kaira District Kanara Karnatak Kunbi labour Land Revenue Admin Leslie Wilson Lingayat Linlithgow Correspondence loc.cit London Lumley to Linlithgow Maharashtra Mann ment money-lender N.S. Papers nationalist movement non-cooperation op.cit Panch Mahals passim Patidars peasant Poona prosperous province Public and Judicial Quit India Movement resignations Satara District satyagraha Siddapur Sirsi southern division subcontinent Surat Sykes Correspondence Taluka throughout Vallabhbhai Patel VIII Pt western India