Land and Caste in South India

Dharma Kumar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
9788173040054 (ISBN)

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Land and Caste in South India was first published in 1965 by Cambridge University Press, having been awarded the Ellen MacArthur Prize for the best work in economic history of the year in Cambridge University.

It has since established itself as a classic, particularly for its pioneering analysis of the connections between caste and agricultural labour, and its novel method of estimating agricultural labour in Madras Presidency at the outset of the nineteenth century, before census data were available. It also brought together a great deal of quantitative information on wages, population and famine, emigration, and other agrarian themes.

Although it is essential reading for modern Indian history, and is of great interest to social anthropologists, development economists and others, it has long been out of print. This reissue includes a substantial introduction, surveying work that has appeared during three decades after the publication of the original edition and indicating where Land and Caste in South India needs clarification, revision or amplification; and where its fundamental conclusions still stand.

Dharma Kumar was one of India's leading economic historians. She was a Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, and editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review. She was a general editor of the two-volume Cambridge Economic History of India, editor of Volume II and author of several chapters in Volume II. Her research work in Indian economic history mainly covers the colonial period, though her published work ranges from Chola property rights to comparative studies of India, Indonesia and China. She has also worked on eco- nomic development and public policy. She passed away in 2001.

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements and A Note on Certain Conventions ix Abbreviations xi
Map of the Madras Presidency xii
Introduction to Reprint xiii
Part I
I Introduction 3
II THE AGRARIAN BACKGROUND 6
III Forms Of Agrestic Servitude 34
IV The Importance Of Agricultural Labour In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century 49
V Official Policy And The Emancipation Of The Agricultural Labourer 64
VI Official Policy: Land Tenures And Land Revenue 77
Part II
VII Land And Population Statistical Appendix 120
VIII Emigration 128
IX WAGES 144
X The Growth Of Agricultural Labour From 1871 To 1901 168
Appendix—Classification of Census Data 183
XI Conclusion 187
Glossary 194
Bibliography 197
Index 205

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2024
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-13	9788173040054 / 9788173040054
Zustand	Neuware