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Author Stokes, Eric.

Title The peasant and the Raj : studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India / Eric Stokes
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978

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Description viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge South Asian studies ; 23
Cambridge South Asian studies ; 23
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social stagnation?; 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early nineteenth century; 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern India in the early nineteenth century; 4. The land revenue systems of the North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the official mind; 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion; 6. Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district; 7. Rural revolt in the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts; 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab; 9. The structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860?1948; 10. Dynamism and enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension
Analysis India Agricultural communities Effects of British colonial administration to 1947
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Land tenure -- India -- History.
Peasant uprisings -- India -- History.
Peasants -- India -- History.
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064939
India -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123706
LC no. 77077731
ISBN 0521216842
0521297702 (paperback)