The author examines diverse issues that have been important in history writing in India, such as the nature of the colonial state, changes in land distribution, the invisible sector, and the extent of taxation in Mughal and British India. These essays are grouped under discrete but not unrelated heads--the Madras Presidency, land, comparative studies of India, Indonesia and China and the evolution of the colonial state. Many of the author's findings are ...
Land and Caste in South India : Agricultrual Labour in Madras Presidency in the Nineteenth Century
The publication of this volume of the Cambridge Economic History of India covering the entire period from the establishment of British rule to its termination, and with epilogues on the Post-Independence Period, marks the end of a project that was planned more than a decade ago. There was at that time no single general source that a student of Indian economic history could consult. As it would have been extremely difficult as well as unwise to compress such ...
