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Peasants, Political Economy, and Law explores the interconnections between agrarian policy, revenue and property law, commercial production, and the emergence of related political identities. Peter Robb studies the definitions of interest groups-and the limits on colonial and `modern` influence-in the context of land revenue and legislation, survey and settlement proceedings, international trade, and commercial cropping. He stresses the importance of acts of omission as well as commission-the role of colonial inquiry, of errors, and inadequacies of policy- in defining pressure groups and influencing identities. The volume analyses such areas as economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, `capitalist` agriculture, and definitions of labour. It also investigates existing and imported socio-economic categories-indigo cultivators, ideas of peasant activists, and the politicization of famine.ISBN - 9780195681604
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Pages : 232
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