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Meanings of agriculture : essays in South Asian history and economics / edited by Peter Robb.

Contributor(s): Series: Publication details: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1996.Description: x, 389 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0195639812 (hbk.)
  • 9780195639810 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1 ROB
Contents:
1. Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy’ 2. Archaic Formations of Agricultural Knowledge in South India; 3. The Process of Agricultural Commercialisation in Eastern India During British Rule: A Reconsideration of the Nations of 'Forced Commercialisation' and 'Dependent Peasantry'; 4. Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice-growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Indian Reality and British Conceptions: The Agrarian Scene in South Vizagapatam in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 6. Paddy, Garden, Chena, Plantation: Was there a Peasant Strategy in the Kandyan Regions of Sri Lanka Before 1940?; 7. Agrarian Change and the Labour Process; 8. Time and Money: The Meaning and Measurement of Labour in Indian Agriculture.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-389).

1. Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy’
2. Archaic Formations of Agricultural Knowledge in South India;
3. The Process of Agricultural Commercialisation in Eastern India During British Rule: A Reconsideration of the Nations of 'Forced Commercialisation' and 'Dependent Peasantry';
4. Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice-growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century;
5. Indian Reality and British Conceptions: The Agrarian Scene in South Vizagapatam in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;
6. Paddy, Garden, Chena, Plantation: Was there a Peasant Strategy in the Kandyan Regions of Sri Lanka Before 1940?;
7. Agrarian Change and the Labour Process;
8. Time and Money: The Meaning and Measurement of Labour in Indian Agriculture.