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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      07 October 1999
      ISBN:
      9781139053396
      9780521179676
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521364249
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 278 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
      Series:
      The New Cambridge History of India
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    The New Cambridge History of India
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Asian History
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    Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.

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    "This is a fine source for anyone interested in the evolution of South Asia's agrarian systems and institutions." EH.NET

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