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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India by David Hall-Matthews is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India about?
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above all, their relationship with the colonial sta
Who reads Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Hall-Matthews
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Limited
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280454707
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Agriculture, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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