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082 _a305.563
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100 _aBose, Sugata
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245 0 _aAgrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947
260 _aUnited Kingdom:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1986.
300 _a306p.
505 _a List of maps; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Agrarian Economy and Society: Structure and Trends: 1. Introduction: a typology of agrarian social structure in early twentieth-century Bengal; 2. Subsistence and the market I; 3. Subsistence and the market II: the peasants' produce; 4. The peasantry in debt: the working and rupture of systems of rural credit relations; 5. Peasants into proletarians? The market in land and the question of change in the social organisation of production; Part II. Peasants and Politics: 6. Agrarian class conflict, nationalism and communalism in east Bengal; 7. Agrarian relations and mass nationalism in west Bengal; 8. Sharecroppers' agitations in the frontier regions; Conclusion; Glossary; Select bibliography
650 _a Peasants -- India -- Bengal -- History.
_96388
650 _aBengal (India) -- Social conditions.
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