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The New Cambridge History of India Vol. 4.4: An Agrarian History of South Asia

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An Agrarian History of South Asia

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 4.4

Edited by David Ludden

Publication Date 1999

Hardback ISBN-10
0521364248

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521364249

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521364249

Overview

David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
An Agrarian History of South Asia in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

Agriculture

Territory

Regions

Modernity

Bibliographical essay

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