Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India

By David Hardiman

This book provides important insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India--that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurers, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both economic and ideological.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195639561
• ISBN13: 9780195639568
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"