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082			_a305.563 BOS/A
100			_aBose, Sugata _9684
245		0	_aAgrarian Bengal: economy, social structure and politics, 1919-1947
260			_bCUP -- _aUnited Kingdom -- _c1986
300			_axii, 306p.
500			_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; *Index.
520			_aAs 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.
650			_aBengal _98972
650			_aIndia _98837
650			_aSocial conditions _98840
650			_aHistory _91417
650			_aPeasants _914204
650			_aFarmer _914205
650			_aPolitical activity _914206
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