This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the e

This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe—with its many forms of livelihood—were reshaped

This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transformation: colonia

The book covers Indian agricultural development from the colonial to the present period. It examines how ruling class political ideology determined the agricult

This definitive study explores what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in