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British Policy in India 1858-1905
Av S. Gopal
Häftad, 2007
721 kr
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The purpose of this substantial work is to study British policy towards India during the second half of the nineteenth century as formulated in Britain and India by the highest authorities. The period from the Revolt and the assumption by the British Government of direct responsibility for the …
Canal Irrigation in British India
Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy
Av Ian Stone
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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Although one of the acknowledged achievements of the British Raj was the extensive construction of irrigation works, their effects have to date been little studied by historians. In this book Dr Stone has undertaken the first full-scale study of the qualitative and quantitative effects on local …
Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931-39
The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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The 1930s was a critical decade in Indian politics. It saw the Congress Party begin its rise to political dominance, while Indian 'big business' strengthened its position in the economy. This book seeks to analyse the response of India's most important indigenous businessmen to the growth of …
Electoral Allegiance in Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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Sri Lanka is one of the few new Commonwealth countries to have had a strong democratic tradition and a vibrant electoral life since Independence. In this book, Dilesh Jayanntha examines the basis for Sri Lankan electoral allegiance since 1947. He challenges the prevalent notion that caste is the …
The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka
Av Mick Moore
Häftad, 2007
524 kr
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Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources. Sri Lanka has more than fifty years' history of pluralist …
The Devs of Cincvad
A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule. Under the Maratha Kingdom, the Devs occupied a privileged position in the ritual, social and …
Development Policy of a Communist Government
West Bengal since 1977
Av Ross Mallick
Häftad, 2007
557 kr
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West Bengal has the longest-ruling democratically elected Communist government in world history. Since 1977 the Left Front has governed a population of 68 million people and has received considerable world-wide attention as a positive example of Third World development and change. In this book, Dr …
South Indian Factory Workers
Their Life and their World
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This book studies workers in four factories in Bangalore - an industrial city of more than one and a half million people in South India - and seeks to answer questions about the situation and thinking of workers in modern capital intensive factories. It is based on case studies of Bangalore workers …
Separatism Among Indian Muslims
The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 1860-1923
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of Pakistan and many of the troubles which have …
India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960's
Häftad, 2007
653 kr
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This book examines India's export performance and export policies in the 1960s. The author analyses the causal factors underlying the trends in exports and evaluates the government policies which affected them. This authoritative work will be of interest to all those concerned with Indian economic …
The Swatantra Party and Indian Conservatism
Av H. L. Erdman
Häftad, 2007
687 kr
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The Swatantra Party, founded in 1959 to provide a right-wing opposition to the ruling Congress Party, has since become the leading opposition in the Indian national parliament. Dr Erdman examines the background, emergence and growth of Swatantra within the framework of conservative politics in …
The Transition in Bengal, 1756-75
A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan
Häftad, 2007
672 kr
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Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan held the office of Naib Nazim and Naib Diwan of Bengal from 1765 to 1772. This study includes the early life of the Khan, but concentrates particularly upon the years from 1756, when the Khan first held public office, to 1775. There was much greater continuity and …
Bengal Agriculture 1920-1946
A Quantitative Study
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This is a study of agricultural development in undivided Bengal during the period 1920-1946. The first part of the book is devoted to a close examination of the quality of the officially published crop statistics and a detailed analysis of the trends in cropped area, output and yield per acre. …
Public Expenditure and Indian Development Policy 1960-70
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Of the many different ways in which economists have tried to analyse public expenditure, the most relevant to Indian economic development is that which links the level of public expenditure with the rate at which the state can accumulate capital. The abstract theory of this link, however, must be …
Village Republics
Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India
Av Robert Wade
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Why do some people get together to manage their common assets? Why do other groups of people leave those assets to be over-exploited by each member of the group? The answers could be crucial to the proper maintenance and use of 'common property resources', from grazing land through fish stocks to …
The State of Martial Rule
The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence
Av Ayesha Jalal
Häftad, 2007
668 kr
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When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the 'successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the 'seceding' state, had no semblance of a central government. In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state …
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India
Malabar 1900-1948
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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In 1957, Kerala became the first region in Asia to elect a communist government parliamentary procedure. Dilip Menon's book traces the social history of comunism in Malabar, the bastion of the movement, and looks at how the ideology was transformed into a doctrine of caste equality, as national …
The Making of a New 'Indian' Art
Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods. Tapati Guha-Thakurta moves beyond most existing assumptions and narratives to explore the complexities and diversities of the changes …
Private Investment in India 1900-1939
Häftad, 2007
787 kr
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This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor supplies, as against demand conditions. In the …
The Politics of South India 1920-1937
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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The interwar years witnessed great changes in the political life of India, with the establishment of new governmental institutions, the emergence of political movements based on class, caste and ideology, and the rapid expansion of the nationalist campaign. This book looks at the complex of …
The Dynamics of Indian Political Factions
A Study of District Councils in the State of Maharashtra
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This study constitutes an analysis of factionalism between rival groups in the dominant Congress Party in Maharashtra. The principal question examined is whether a politician's decision to oppose or 'rebel against' party authority is determined or can be predicted by certain characteristics of the …
Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India
Av S. Ambirajan
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This book examines the effect of Classical political economy - the economic and monetary writings of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, the Mills and others - on the policy-making of the British government in India in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ambirajan shows how the …
Caste Conflict Elite Formation
Häftad, 2007
721 kr
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Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka. However, it does not merely document the remarkable successes in business enterprise and in the acquisition of Western-educated professional skills which were achieved by families from the Karava caste during the last …
Trade and Empire in Western India
1784-1806
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in that part of India. The chief of these is …
Land Tenure in Village Ceylon
A Sociological and Historical Study
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This anthropological work of unusual historical depth describes the pattern of land tenure and resulting social structure in the Ceylonese village of Madagama. Dr Obeyesekere analyses the contemporary system in detail, and traces the evolution of every land holding and the correlated kinship …
The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The establishment in British India produced an impressive number of scholars and scholarly amateurs who pursued historical and other studies and wrote books and articles of distinction. Mr Palmer has produced a work in this tradition. His subject is the outbreak of the Mutiny (as the Raj considered …
Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village
Häftad, 2007
672 kr
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An examination of the nature of political change within a village, which the author calls Morapitiya, in the Kandyan highlands of Sri Lanka, during the transition from colony to independent nation. During the first years of Sri Lanka's independence, the United National Party perpetuated the …
The Emergence of Provincial Politics
The Madras Presidency 1870-1920
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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This book examines an important period of transition in the political structure of South India. The first three-quarters of a century of British rule, down to the 1870s, had effectively torn apart and fragmented the political institutions of the South, and had left a highly parochial political …
Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule
A South Indian Case
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in …
Private Industrial Investment in Pakistan
1960-1970
Av Rashid Amjad
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This book examines the behaviour of private industrial investment in Pakistan in the 1960s, in the first half of which it rose at an unprecedented rate, followed by sharp decline, and then stagnation for the rest of the period. The approach adopted is institutional and empirical. The developments …
