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Land, labour, and agrarian change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh / Fraser Sugden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sugden, Fraser, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Tarai (India and Nepal).
- Agriculture.
- Land reform--Tarai (India and Nepal).
- Land reform.
- Rural development--Tarai (India and Nepal).
- Rural development.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This book offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepal's far-eastern Tarai. It shows how this region has since the 1700s evolved from a forested frontier home to relatively autonomous Adivasi (indigenous) cultivators, to a feudal economy grounded in landlord-tenant relations, which has persisted alongside a rapidly expanding industrial and commercial sector. The book explores the changing land ownership patterns and distribution of surplus, the flow of labour between agriculture and industry, and more complex interactions with global capitalism. The book thus offers unique insights into both the reproduction and transformations of class, ethnic and labour relations in Nepal during a period of rapid political transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: revisiting the ‘pre-capitalist’
- Feudalism, capitalism and the mode(s) of production: reconceptualising agrarian transition
- An agrarian and industrial history of the Morang region
- Conceptualising the agrarian class structure
- Ground rent, the market and debt: the appropriation and distribution of agrarian surplus
- Surplus appropriation and its implications for food security and productivity
- Capitalist expansion, cash and climate: a brewing agrarian crisis
- Revisiting agrarian transition in Morang
- Capitalism, the pre-capitalist and the peasantry: looking forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed August 1, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sugden, Fraser. Land, labour, and agrarian change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh
- ISBN:
- 9781009555623
- 1009555626
- 9781009555609
- 100955560X
- OCLC:
- 1526231330
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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