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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
D Hall-Matthews
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Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial state.
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial state.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349525386
SKU
V9781349525386
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99-15
About D Hall-Matthews
DAVID HALL-MATTHEWS is Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies, Leeds University, UK, having previously taught at Oxford, SOAS and LSE. Educated at SOAS and Oxford, where he was awarded a DPhil in Modern History in 2002, he is a former Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Administration of Relief, New Delhi.
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