Peasants, Political Economy, and Law: Empire, Identity, and India

By Peter Robb

In this collection written over a period of almost two decades, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, property law, and commercial production; and the emergence of political identities. He investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, "capitalist" agriculture, and definitions of labor in relation to the British Empire.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195681606
• ISBN13: 9780195681604
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages