State, Market and Peasant in Colonial South and Southeast Asia

Abstract

Peasant resistance - from footdragging to rebellion: from avoidance to confrontation - peasant protest in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia from footdragging to flight - the evasive history of peasant avoidance protest in South and Southeast Asia Moral or contest state? peasant responses to elite demands in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia tactics versus strategies in peasant responses to elite demands in pre-colonial and colonial Southeast Asia tactics versus strategies in peasant protest response bandits, monks and pretender kings - patterns of peasant resistance in colonial Burma concepts of the moral economy and the study of commercialism in Southeast Asia South Asian protest in comparative perspective peasant movements and Millenarianism. Colonialism, capitalism and peasant responses: imperialist rhetoric and modern histiography - the case of lower Burma before and after conquest the village and the state in Vietnam and Burma - an open and shut case? colonization, commercial agriculture and the destruction of the deltaic rainforests of British Burma the Ryotwari in lower Burma - the establishment and decline of a peasant proprietor system immigrant Asians and the economic impact of European imperialism - the role of the South Indian Chettiars in British Burma the annex of the Raj - the Anglo-Indian interlude in Burmese history, circa 1826-1941 ethnic pluralism and conflict on the frontiers of South Asian migration market demands versus imperial control - colonial contradictions and the origins of agrarian protest in South and Southeast Asia.