Author: Willem van SchendelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Rural Labourers in Bengal, 1880 to 1980
Author: Willem van SchendelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Author: Sugata BosePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
Coolies, Capital and Colonialism
Author: Rana P. BehalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521699747
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.
Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India
Author: B. B. ChaudhuriPublisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131716885
Category : Geschichte
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Bengal Borderland
Author: Willem van SchendelPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
'The Bengal Borderland' constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') has been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, remarkably, been largely ignored by historians.
Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh
Author: Craig BaxterPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810848634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An easily accessible source of information on the history, politics, economics, society, geography and culture of Bangladesh. Contains an exhaustive bibliography for further study.
Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh
Author: Syedur RahmanPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810874539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh greatly expands on the previous edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, places, events, and institutions, as well as significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
The Bengal Delta
Author: I. IqbalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Labour Mobility and Rural Society
Author: Arjan de HaanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131784503X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.
The Institutional Approach to Labour and Development
Author: Klárá FótiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135777799
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists, this collection analyses how social institutions contribute to an understanding of development.