The peasant and the Raj : studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India - Stokes, Eric. (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978)
Machine derived contents note: 1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social stagnation?; 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early nineteenth century; 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern India in the early nineteenth century; 4. The land revenue systems of the North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the official mind; 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion; 6. Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district; 7. Rural revolt in the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts; 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab; 9. The structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860?1948; 10. Dynamism and enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Land tenure -- India -- History; Peasants -- India -- History; Peasant uprisings -- India -- History; India -- Rural conditions; India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947.; India -- Agricultural communities -- Effects of British colonial administration -- to 1947