The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India

Abstract

1. The first century of British colonial rule: social revolution or social stagnation? 2. Privileged land tenure in village India in the early nineteenth century 3. Agrarian society and the Pax Britannica in northern India in the early nineteenth century 4. The land revenue systems of the North-Western Provinces and Bombay Deccan 1830-80: ideology and the official mind 5. Traditional resistance movements and Afro-Asian nationalism: the context of the 1857 Mutiny Rebellion 6. Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district 7. Rural revolt in the Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: a study of the Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts 8. Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab 9. The structure of landholding in Uttar Pradesh 1860-1948 10. Dynamism and enervation in North Indian agriculture: the historical dimension 11. Peasants, moneylenders and colonial rule: an excursion into Central India 12. The return of the peasant to South Asian history.