Meanings of agriculture : essays in South Asian history and economics

Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine leatherette copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: SOAS Studies on South Asia ; Understandings and Perspectives. Physical description: x, 389 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-389). Contents: 1. Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy / Peter Robb -- 2. Archaic Formations of Agricultural Knowledge in South India / David Ludden -- 3. The Process of Agricultural Commercialisation in Eastern India During British Rule: A Reconsideration of the Nations of 'Forced Commercialisation' and 'Dependent Peasantry' / B.B. Chaudhuri -- 4. Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice-growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century / Rajat Datta -- 5. Indian Reality and British Conceptions: The Agrarian Scene in South Vizagapatam in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Benedicte Hjejle -- 6. Paddy, Garden, Chena, Plantation: Was there a Peasant Strategy in the Kandyan Regions of Sri Lanka Before 1940? / Eric Meyer -- 7. Agrarian Change and the Labour Process / Ravi S. Srivastava -- 8. Time and Money: The Meaning and Measurement of Labour in Indian Agriculture / Sumit Guha. Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects India History; Agriculture and state India History; Agricultural development India; Agricultural development South Asia; South Asia History; South Asia Economic; Rural History of South-East Asia.