Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914

Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914
Author: David Hardiman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1992
Genre: Science
ISBN:

The period 1858-1914 on which this book focuses, comprises several disparate and localized struggles which are significant in revealing wider unities that existed among the peasantry. Hardiman first traces changing trends in the way the peasantry has been viewed by historians, from the colonial era to recent times. He then emphasizes the "community" consciousness of peasants, which is then redefined within the context of their specific struggle. He thus demarcates particular areas of resistance based on specific relationships of domination and subordination, each with a distinct character and chronology. Each localized, isolated resistance is thus unified in being directed against those outside the peasant community.

Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914

Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914
Author: David Hardiman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1994-02-17
Genre: India
ISBN: 9780195633900

This collection of essays focuses on a period when several disparate and localized struggles occurred which are significant in revealing wider unities that existed among the peasantry. David Hardiman first traces changing trends in the way the peasantry has been viewed by historians, from the colonial era to recent times. He then emphasizes the "community" consciousness of peasants, which is then redefined within the context of their specific struggles. He thus demarcates particular areas of resistance based on specific relationships of domination and subordination, each with a distinct character and chronology. Each localized, isolated resistance is thus unified in being directed against those outside the peasant community.

Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
Author: D. Hall-Matthews
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230510515

Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial state.

Peasant Pasts

Peasant Pasts
Author: Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520250761

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Agrarian Environments

Agrarian Environments
Author: Arun Agrawal
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822325741

An interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India.

Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521563192

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.

Environment and Empire

Environment and Empire
Author: William Beinart
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2007-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199260311

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this study examines a key global historical process.

Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939

Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939
Author: Srilata Chatterjee
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843313669

Set against the backdrop of major developments in the nationalist movement in Bengal, this study focuses on the nature of the interaction between the Congress, which represented mainstream political nationalism, and popular social groups whose politics was largely disorganized. In particular, it assesses the imapct that this interplay had on the nature of the Congress and the extent to which the provincial Congress organization was able to match its aspirations to those of the people, as it matured from a loosely-structured institution to an organized politica party.