World Of The Rural Labourer In Colonial India

This Volume Comprises Some Of The Most Important Writing On Agricultural Labourers In Colonial India. The Editor Has Selected, Out Of A Huge Body Of Published And Unpublished Material, Various Key Essays Which Show Up The Major Themes That Have Dominated The Historiography On India's Rural Labour. A Variety Of Perspectives - The Economic, The Cultural, The Demographic, The Taxonomic, The Political, The Colonial, The Nationalist, Etc. - Are Either Presented Or Extensively Commented On.--book Jacket. In Keeping With The Format Of This Series, A Detailed Introduction Discusses How And Why The Study Of Agricultural Labourers Came Into Existence, As Well As Looks At Shifts In Perspective And Changes In The Questions Asked. The Volume Shows How Historical Information On Labour Was Gathered By British Administrators And Census Operations, The Uses To Which This Was Put By Nationalist Writers, The Revisions And Additions To This By Contemporary Economic Historians, And The Various New Perspectives From Which We Can Now View Peasants And Their World.--book Jacket. For All Who Wish To Study The Bulk Of India's Rural Populations In Colonial Times - Their Worldview, Their Social Forms And Types, (landless Or Small Peasant Or Tribal, Etc.) And Their Economic And Agrarian Contexts - This Will Prove An Excellent Book.--book Jacket. Agricultural Labourers In Modern India And Pakistan / S.j. Patel -- Caste And Landlessness In South India / Dharma Kumar -- The Growth Of Agricultural Labour In India -- A Note / J. Krishnamurty -- Capitalist Domination And The Small Peasantry : The Deccan Districts In The Late Nineteenth Century / Jairus Banaji -- Agricultural Labour And Production : Central And Sout-east Punjab, 1870-1940 / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- Tribal Migration In India And Beyond / Crispin Bates And Marina Carter -- The Hali System In South Gujarat / Jan Breman -- Reproducing Inequality : Spirit Cults And Labour Relations In Colonial Eastern India / Gyan Prakash. Edited By Gyan Prakash. Articles, Most Previously Published. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [305]-310).