Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950)

Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950)
Author: Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1482839105

This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the his-tory of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demonstrates the dynamism of cash-crop production systems and how these systems influenced each other. Second, it explores how colonial state policy came to stimulate research-based agronomic interventions, often with unintended consequences. And finally, it shows how cash cropping entangled South Asians and Europeans in new forms of struggle and cooperation. This meticulous and illuminating study deserves a wide readership. Willem van Schendel, professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam.