Nowhere on earth is the relationship between man and land more complicated and seemingly as intractable as in South Asia. India alone, with some 1.37 billion people, most of whom work the land for a living, has known famine and scarcity on a scale unknown elsewhere. This has mocked humanity, and the urged need to investigate causes and remedies. Chapters in this volume look at issues of land, tenure, and peasant from a variety of different disciplines--history, anthropology, economics, geography, political science, sociology. They furnish fresh insights on discrete localities and problems. Each is by a specialist who deals with intricate ways in which land and lord and labour have been combined and changed.

ISBN 13: 9789389850192

ISBN 10: 9389850193

Year: 2020

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: xiv+387p., bib., ind., 23cm.

Binding: Paperback

Subject(s): History