Rajpootana, Central India, and the mediatized chiefs in Central India and Malwa
Author: India. Foreign and Political Department
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 642
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Author: India. Foreign and Political Department
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: India. Foreign and Political Department
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: India
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rolf Bauer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9004385185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 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.
Author: Carl Trocki
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 113511899X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.
Author: Neeladri Bhattacharya
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1438477414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe—with its many forms of livelihood—were reshaped to create a new agrarian world of settled farming. While focusing on Punjab, India, this pathbreaking analysis offers a broad argument about the workings of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh. Such radical change, Neeladri Bhattacharya shows, is as much conceptual as material. Agrarian colonization was a process of creating spaces that conformed to the demands of colonial rule. It entailed establishing a regime of categories—tenancies, tenures, properties, habitations—and a framework of laws that made the change possible. Agrarian colonization was in this sense a deep conquest. Colonialism, the book suggests, has the power to revisualize and reorder social relations and bonds of community. It alters the world radically, even when it seeks to preserve elements of the old. The changes it brings about are simultaneously cultural, discursive, legal, linguistic, spatial, social, and economic. Moving from intent to action, concepts to practices, legal enactments to court battles, official discourses to folklore, this book explores the conflicted and dialogic nature of a transformative process. By analyzing this great conquest, and the often silent ways in which it unfolds, the book asks every historian to rethink the practice of writing agrarian history and reflect on the larger issues of doing history.
Author: I. Iqbal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0230289819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.