Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

Hall-Matthews, D.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-06-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403949028

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510517

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 269