Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914
Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914

Author: David Hardiman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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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

Published: 1994-02-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780195633900

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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

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0230510515

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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.

Peasant Pasts
Peasant Pasts

Author: Vinayak Chaturvedi

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0520250761

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Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792-1947
Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792-1947

Author: Velayutham Saravanan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1315517205

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This book offers a bird’s eye view of the economic and environmental history of the Indian peninsula during colonial era. It analyses the nature of colonial land revenue policy, commercialisation of forest resources, consequences of coffee plantations, intrusion into tribal private forests and tribal-controlled geographical regions, and disintegration of their socio-cultural, political, administrative and judicial systems during the British Raj. It explores the economic history of the region through regional and ‘non-market’ economies and addresses the issues concerning local communities. Comprehensive, systematic and rich in archival material, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in history, especially those concerned with economic and environmental history.

Agrarian Environments
Agrarian Environments

Author: Arun Agrawal

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780822325741

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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

Published: 2000-04-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521563192

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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

Published: 2007-10-11

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0199260311

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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.