Peasant Paddy Production Indebtedness and Dispossession
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1st ed.
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ISBN
8178270951
Length
xix+346p., Tables.
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This book provides a statistical framework for the study of agricultural trends, peasant indebtedness and asset transfer in the predominantly paddy-growing districts of undivided Bengal for the first four decades of the 20 century. The study also shows how demographic pressures and ecological changes had made agriculture nearly unsustainable in the old deltaic regions of the province, and the jotedar-creditor with his stake in grain trade squeezed out whatever ...