Analyses the triangular relationship between migrants, local landless, and dominant landowners; shows how colonization of the tribal hinterland created mass pov

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom

This Omnibus edition, with an Introduction by Sujata Patel, brings together three classic works of Jan Breman-Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers: Rural Labour Ci

A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development. In the past three decades, Asian urban populations expanded by almost one billion,