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Colonializing agriculture [electronic resource] : the myth of Punjab exceptionalism / Mridula Mukherjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mukherjee, Mridula.
- Series:
- Sage series in modern Indian history ; 9.
- Sage series in modern Indian history ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants--India--Punjab.
- Peasants.
- Agriculture--India--Punjab.
- Agriculture.
- India--Economic conditions--1918-1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal landlords, rack-rent
- Contents:
- Peasants as tax-payers
- Peasants as debtors
- Peasants in the market
- Peasants as classes
- Capital accumulation and investment
- Punjab and eastern India : polar opposites or treading the same path?
- Notes:
- Companion to: Peasants in India's non-violent revolution.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-309-4
- 1-282-15392-7
- 9786612153921
- 81-321-0263-0
- OCLC:
- 436044740
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