*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;

*Index.

As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general and about the effects of international economic fluctuations on primary producing countries.