Table of Contents

List of maps and tables; Preface; Note on technical terms and references; Maps; 1. Introduction: the peasant in India and Bombay presidency; 2. The village in 1850: land tenure, social structure and revenue policy; 3. The village in 1850: land and agriculture; 4. Indebtedness and the Deccan Riots of 1875; 5. Continuity and change in the rural economy, 1850–1900; 6. The Bombay peasantry, 1850–1900: social stability or social stratification?; 7. The agricultural economy, 1900–1935: the critical watershed?; 8. The impact of government policy, 1880–1935; 9. The peasant and politics in the early twentieth century; 10. Conclusions: the problem of differential commercialisation; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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A regional study of the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry.