Bibliograph

An agrarian history of South Asia, David Ludden

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Label

An agrarian history of South Asia, David Ludden

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An agrarian history of South Asia

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

707917637

Responsibility statement

David Ludden

Series statement

The New Cambridge History of IndiaCambridge Histories online

Summary

Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history--, Provided by Publisher

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