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Understanding 9/11Agrarian India Between The World Wars A Study Of Colonial Feudal Capitalism
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Agrarian India Between The World Wars A Study Of Colonial Feudal Capitalism
- Publication date
- 1981
- Topics
- history, India, agriculture, economics, sociology, politics, imperialism, capitalism, farmers, taxes
- Publisher
- Progress Publishers
- Collection
- mir-titles; additional_collections
- Language
- English
In this book, the author has tried to present an integral
work studying one of the most critical periods of and a turning
point in the colonial exploitation of India by British imperialism-
that of the pre-crisis "flourishing" and the development
of the world economic crisis from the end of the 1920s
to almost the mid-1930s. The socio-economic anailysis in this
work discloses the evolution of India's agrarian structure. It
covers chiefly the period between the two world wars, which
was one of persistent and nation-wide anti-imperialist struggle
and, in a number of Indian provinces, also. of an anti-feudal
movement among the peasantry. It should be noted that
it is precisely this period that is covered at best fragmentarily
in contemporary socio-economic literature.
The material the author has managed to utilise is, for the
most part, unique, especiaJly the many volumes of the British
Royal Commission on Agriculture in India ( 1927) and the research
carried out by the Indian Banking Enquiry Committee
for the Central Administrated Areas ( 193 1) . Extensive use of
this material, together with the results of the All-India Population
Census of 1931, has made it possible to recreate clear
types of representatives of exploitative groups, to show quite
clearly the economic policy pursued by British imperiailism in
the Indian countryside, as weH as the differences in the positions
of t he exploitative strata in India in relation to the peasantry
and the land question.
The research is also based ori the use of now rare material
( with which even experts on · the social problems of India are
unfamiliar) on the agrarian question and the condition of the
peasantry, the development of capitalism and class differentiation
in the countryside, the agrarian policy pursued by
British imperiali sm-material that was published by almost all
the leading newspapers and journals in India at the time.
The author suggests that considerable interest will be shown
in his elaboration of such problems as the development course
taken by capitalism, merchant's and usurer's capital, the landtax
systems and the attempts made by the British imperialists
to implant junker-type landowner capitalists, in, India.
The work analyses the impact of the world economic crisis
on the position of the immediate producer ( cultivator) , shows
the way Britain robbed agrarian India more and more as the
Great Depression of 1 929-1933 deepened, and also considers
the specific mechanisn1 by which the consequences of the crisis
were transferred from the metropolitan country to colonial
India.
Translated from Russian by Jane Sayer
Designed by Andrei Lisitsin
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