Peasant Struggles in India

Peasant Struggles in India
Author: Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai
Publisher: Bombay : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 808
Release: 1979
Genre: India
ISBN:

Collection of articles.

Peasant Organizations in India

Peasant Organizations in India
Author: A. N. Seth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1984
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

Report on a series of FAO and ILO sponsored case studies of peasant movements and rural worker organizations in India - looks at the peasantry, tribal peoples, role of caste in social structure, social change and landlessness; examines types and history of associations, and agricultural trade unions, esp. Their objectives, membership, leadership, decision making, and financing; discusses obstacles to their development, and support by the state and international organizations (incl. role of ILO); includes regional level research results.

Agrarian Movements in India

Agrarian Movements in India
Author: Arvind N. Das
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317845382

First published in 1982. In this volume we present a collection of original papers, edited by Arvind N. Das, on agrarian movements in the populous Indian state of Bihar. These movements are traced from the early twentieth century through to the Naxalite activity of the recent past; their content and the forces which gave rise to them are examined; and the response of the state — both the colonial state and the post-colonial state — is identified. Believed to be a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian movements, which should be of considerable value to both specialists on India and to those with a more general interest in the agrarian question.

The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India

The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
Author: Rolf Bauer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004385185

Winner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state’s power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.

Peasants in Revolt

Peasants in Revolt
Author: Kapil Kumar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1984
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

This Book Deals With The Impact Of Imperial Policies On The Countryside, The Emergence Of The Taluqdari System, The Classification Of Peasant Society, Peasants Exploitation, The Emergence Of Peasant Organizations, The Role Of Militant Rural Intelligentsia, The Peasant Struggles And The Attitude Of The Dominant Social Groups Towards These Struggles. It Also Attempts To Analyse The Peasants` Perception Of Gandhi And Gandhi`S Attitude Towords The Peasants` Response To His Call.

Hungry Nation

Hungry Nation
Author: Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108695051

This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.