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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 1-18

  3. Landholding, Peasant Production and Rainfall

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 19-56

  4. Market Opportunities, Risks and Failures

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 57-91

  5. Rural Moneylending, Credit Legislation and Peasant Protest

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 92-127

  6. Land Revenue Rigidity, Revisions and Non-remission

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 128-167

  7. Peasants and Relief Labour

    • David Hall-Matthews
    Pages 168-211

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 212-221

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 222-269
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About this book

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.

About the author

DAVID HALL-MATTHEWS is Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies, Leeds University, UK, having previously taught at Oxford, SOAS and LSE. Educated at SOAS and Oxford, where he was awarded a DPhil in Modern History in 2002, he is a former Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Administration of Relief, New Delhi.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

  • Authors: David Hall-Matthews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510517

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4902-8Published: 01 June 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52538-6Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51051-7Published: 01 June 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 269

  • Topics: Asian History, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, History of South Asia

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