The New Cambridge History of India: An Agrarian History of South Asia PDF
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AnAgrarianHistoryofSouthAsia David Ludden’s book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understandingtheregionaldiversityofagrarianSouthAsia.Adoptinga long-termviewofhistory,ittreatsSouthAsianotasasinglecivilisation territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with its own social, cultural, and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when institutions of ritual, conquest, and patriarchy formed an archipelago of farming regimes that steadily displacedandassimilatedpastoralandtribalcommunities.Itgoesonto considerhow,fromthesixteenthtothenineteenthcentury,theconcept of modern territoriality evolved as farmers pushed agriculture to its physical limits and states created permanent rights to all the land. Subsequentchaptersfocusonthedevelopmentofagrariancapitalismin villagesocieties,whichemergedundertheBritishandwhichformedthe bedrockofthemodernpoliticaleconomy.IncontemporarySouthAsia, thebookargues,economicdevelopmentandsocialmovementscontinue to reflect the influence of agrarian localism and the shifting fortunes of agrarian regions with histories which can be traced back to medieval times. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in SouthAsia,thebookpromisestobeavaluableresourceforstudentsof agrarianandregionalhistory,aswellasofcomparativeworldhistory. david ludden teaches South Asian and world history at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Making India Hindu:Community,Conflict,andthePoliticsofDemocracy(1996)and PeasantHistoryinSouthIndia(1985). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA GeneraleditorGordon Johnson PresidentofWolfsonCollege,andDirector,CentreofSouthAsianStudies, UniversityofCambridge AssociateeditorsC. A. Bayly VereHarmsworthProfessorofImperialandNavalHistory,UniversityofCambridge, andFellowofStCatharine’sCollege andJohn F. Richards ProfessorofHistory,DukeUniversity AlthoughtheoriginalCambridgeHistoryofIndia,publishedbetween 1922and1937,didmuchtoformulatea chronologyforIndianhistory anddescribetheadministrativestructuresofgovernmentinIndia,ithas inevitably been overtaken by the mass of new research over the last sixtyyears. Designed to take full account of recent scholarship and changing conceptions of South Asia’s historical development, The New Cambridge History of India is published as a series of short, self-contained volumes, eachdealing witha separatetheme andwritten byoneortwoauthors.Withinanoverallfour-partstructure,thirty-one complementaryvolumesinuniformformatwillbepublished.Eachwill conclude with a substantial bibliographical essay designed to lead non-specialistsfurtherintotheliterature. Thefourpartsplannedareasfollows: I TheMughalsandTheirContemporaries II IndianStatesandtheTransitiontoColonialism III TheIndianEmpireandtheBeginningsofModernSociety IV TheEvolutionofContemporarySouthAsia Alistofindividualtitlesinpreparationwill befoundattheendofthevolume. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA . IV 4 An Agrarian History of South Asia DAVID LUDDEN UniversityofPennsylvania Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 publishedbythepresssyndicateoftheuniversityofcambridge ThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridgecb21rp cambridgeuniversitypress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UnitedKingdom http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011–4211,USA http://www.cup.org 10StamfordRoad,Oakleigh,Melbourne3166,Australia #CambridgeUniversityPress1999 Thebookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsofrelevant collectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthe writtenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished1999 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge TypesetinGaramond10.5/13pt [ce] AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongresscataloguinginpublicationdata Ludden,DavidE. AnagrarianhistoryofSouthAsia/DavidLudden. p. cm.–(ThenewCambridgehistoryofIndia) Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. ). isbn0-521-36424-8hb 1.Agriculture–Economicaspects–India. 2.Agriculture–India–History. i.Title. ii.Series. ds436.n47 1999 630’.954–dc21 98-43856cip isbn0521364248hardback Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 for rochona Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 CONTENTS Generaleditor’sPreface pagexi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Agriculture 6 Historicity 7 Seasons 17 Maps 36 Landscapes 48 2 Territory 60 Peasantry 69 Dharma 76 Conquest 87 Patriarchy 96 3 Regions 113 Frontiers 113 Sultans 121 Land 130 Culture 140 Administration 153 4 Modernity 167 Mofussil 168 Development 180 Mobilisation 190 Locality 217 Bibliographicalessay 231 Index 249 ix Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
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