Colonializing Agriculture

The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism

Автор: Mridula Mukherjee

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Издател: SAGE Publications Inc

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this v...

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Автор

Mridula Mukherjee

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2005

страници

240

EAN

9780761934042

ISBN

0761934049

Enbook ID

04684735

Издател

SAGE Publications Inc

Теглоt

520

Размери

158 x 241 x 17

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal landlords, rack-rented tenants, and struggling small-holders, who were forced to enlist in the army or migrate to enable their families to pay government taxes and to repay debts. Comparing Punjab with its supposed polar-opposite, the eastern region of Bengal and Bihar, Mridula Mukherjee demonstrates that Punjab too had begun to exhibit features typical of colonial under-development, such as stagnation of productive forces, intensification of semi-feudal relations, forced commercialisation and lack of capital investment in agriculture. The green revolution therefore was not the result of a continuity but actually because of a break with the colonial past.

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