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" Peasants, famine and the state in colonial western India / "
David Hall-Matthews.
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BL
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1034466
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b788836
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| Main Entry
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Hall-Matthews, David, (David Nicolas John),1967-
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Peasants, famine and the state in colonial western India /\ David Hall-Matthews.
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1st ed.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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xvii, 269 pages :: maps ;; 23 cm
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1403949026
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: 9781403949028
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
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1. Landholding, peasant production and rainfall -- 2. Market opportunities, risks and failures -- 3. Rural moneylending, credit legislation and peasant protest -- 4. Land revenue rigidity, revisions and non-remission -- 5. Peasants and relief labour.
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"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."--Jacket.
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Agriculture-- Economic aspects-- India-- Ahmadnagar (District)
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Famines-- India-- Ahmadnagar (District)
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Farmers-- India-- Ahmadnagar (District)-- Social conditions.
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Peasants-- India-- Ahmadnagar (District)
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Agriculture-- Economic aspects.
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Famines.
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Farmers-- Social conditions.
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Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
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Peasants.
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Geschichte 1830-1880.
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Hungersnot.
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India, History, British occupation, 1765-1947.
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Ahmednagar, Region
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India, Ahmadnagar (District)
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India.
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363.8/0954/79
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HC440.F3H35 2005
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