The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India

Author: Rolf Bauer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9004385185

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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.

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.

Agrarian and Other Histories
Agrarian and Other Histories

Author: Shubhra Chakrabarti

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9788193926970

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There is no area of Indian agrarian history that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. This volume considers his work on the peasantry and the political economy of agriculture in eastern India, including the process of 'depeasantization' and the forcible induction of tribes and forest dwellers into settled agriculture.

Peasantry in India
Peasantry in India

Author: G. Krishnan-Kutty

Publisher: Abhinav Publications

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 8170172152

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A Brief Study Of Peasantry In India Is Undertaken By The Author Who Has Earlier Made A Study Of Colonialism In This Country. He Has Probed Into The Roots Of Underdevelopment In The Country And Has Examined British Domination In Its Different Aspects. The Author Has Made Use Of And Interpreted Social Theories And Ideas To Make His Study Systematic. Peasant Studies Are Increasingly Coming Up In India. The Book Is A Modest Addition To The Literature Of This Genre. In This Book, The Author Has Touched Upon Peasant-Worker Alliance. He Has Also Examined The Important Aspects Of Modernization Of Peasantry In India. The Author Is Engaged In More Studies In The Same Discipline.

New Farmers' Movements in India
New Farmers' Movements in India

Author: Tom Brass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1135203148

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The essays in this collection focus on the reasons for and background to the emergence during the 1980s of the new farmers' movements in India. In addition to a more general consideration of the economic, political and theoretical dimensions of this development, there are case studies which cover the farmer's movements in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Karnataka.