Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India

By David Hall-Matthews

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 state.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403949026
• ISBN13: 9781403949028
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"