An agrarian history of South Asia / David Ludden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ludden, David E., author.

Series:

New Cambridge history of India ; IV, 4.

The new Cambridge history of India ; IV, 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--India.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--India--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""CONTENTS""; ""GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; "" CHAPTER 1 AGRICULTURE""; ""HISTORICITY""; ""SEASONS""; ""MAPS""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""Northern river basins""; ""Geographical subdivisions of agrarian South Asia""; ""High mountains""; ""Western plains""; ""Central mountains""; ""The interior peninsula""; ""Costal plains""; ""CHAPTER 2 TERRITORY""; ""PEASANTRY""; ""DHARMA""; ""CONQUEST""; ""PATRIARCHY""; ""CHAPTER 3 REGIONS""; ""FRONTIERS""; ""SULTANS""; ""LAND""

""CULTURE""""ADMINISTRATION""; ""CHAPTER 4 MODERNITY""; ""MOFUSSIL""; ""DEVELOPMENT""; ""MOBILISATION""; ""LOCALITY""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY""; ""Intellectual history""; ""Approaches to agriculture""; ""Long-term history""; ""Early modern themes""; ""Modern issues""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-316-02359-1

0-511-03723-6

0-511-05245-6

1-139-05339-6

0-511-15027-X

0-511-00437-0

OCLC:

707917637