Agrarian Bengal : economy, social structure, and politics, 1919-1947 / Sugata Bose Hardcover - 1986

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 306 pages; illus with maps. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Contents: Part I. Agrarian Economy and Society: Structure and Trends: 1. Introduction: A typology of agrarian social structure in early twentieth-century Bengal -- 2. Subsistence and the market I -- 3. Subsistence and the market II: The peasants' produce -- 4. The peasantry in debt: The working and rupture of systems of rural credit relations -- 5. Peasants into proletarians? The market in land and the question of change in the social organisation of production --- Part II. Peasants and Politics: 6. Agrarian class conflict, nationalism and communalism in east Bengal -- 7. Agrarian relations and mass nationalism in west Bengal -- 8. Sharecroppers' agitations in the frontier regions. Subjects: Geschichte 1919-1947. Sozialgeschichte 1919-1947. Peasants India Bengal History. Peasants Political activity India Bengal History. Peasants India Bengal History. Peasants India Bengal Political activity History. Peasantry India Bengal History. Peasantry India Bengal Political activity History. Peasants Political activity India Bengal History. Paysannerie Activit� politique Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire. 15.75 history of Asia. Peasants. Peasants Political activity. Social conditions. Sozialstruktur. Landwirtschaft. Landbev�lkerung. Agrargesellschaft Wirtschaft Agrarische maatschappij.Peasants India. History. Agricultural history India. Production systems India. History. Agrarian structure India. History. Land markets India. History. Paysannerie Inde Bengale-Occidental (Inde) Activit� politique 1900-1945. Peasants India Bengal History.