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Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. 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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Glossary of Terms Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Maps Introduction Landholding, Peasant Production and Rainfall Market Opportunities, Risks and Failures Rural Moneylending, Credit Legislation and Peasant Protest Land Revenue Rigidity, Revisions and Non-Remission Peasants and Relief Labour Conclusion Bibliography

Peasants Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 1/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781349525386, 978-1349525386
      ISBN10: 1349525383

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      Book Synopsis
      Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. 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.

      Table of Contents
      Glossary of Terms Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Maps Introduction Landholding, Peasant Production and Rainfall Market Opportunities, Risks and Failures Rural Moneylending, Credit Legislation and Peasant Protest Land Revenue Rigidity, Revisions and Non-Remission Peasants and Relief Labour Conclusion Bibliography

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