This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Contributed papers of a seminar held at the Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta, in 1980.

These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central

This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe—with its many forms of livelihood—were reshaped