TY - BOOK AU - Stokes, Eric. TI - The peasant and the Raj: studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India T2 - Cambridge South Asian studies SN - 0521216842 AV - HD875 .S76 U1 - 954.03 PY - 1978/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Land tenure KW - India KW - History KW - Peasants KW - Peasant uprisings KW - Rural conditions KW - Politics and government KW - 1765-1947 KW - Agricultural communities KW - Effects of British colonial administration KW - to 1947 N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/77077731.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/77077731-t.html ER -