TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlesworth, Neil.
TI  - Peasants and imperial rule: agriculture and agrarian society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935 
T2  - Cambridge South Asian studies
SN  - 0521232066
U1  - 323.330954 19
PY  - 1985///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Peasants
KW  - Government policy
KW  - India
KW  - Bombay (State)
KW  - History
KW  - Farm tenancy
KW  - Agriculture and state
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [303]-314; Machine derived contents note: List of maps and tables -- Preface -- Note on technical terms and references -- Maps -- 1. Introduction: the peasant in India and Bombay presidency -- 2. The village in 1850: land tenure, social structure and revenue policy -- 3. The village in 1850: land and agriculture -- 4. Indebtedness and the Deccan Riots of 1875 -- 5. Continuity and change in the rural economy, 1850-1900 -- 6. The Bombay peasantry, 1850-1900: social stability or social stratification? -- 7. The agricultural economy, 1900-1935: the critical watershed? -- 8. The impact of government policy, 1880-1935 -- 9. The peasant and politics in the early twentieth century -- 10. Conclusions: the problem of differential commercialisation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
ER  -