Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese PerspectivesRoutledge, 31. 10. 2013 - Počet stran: 410 The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history. |
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compared | 48 |
The mirasi system and local society in precolonial | 77 |
The peasantry of northern Bengal in the late eighteenth | 146 |
in Tamil districts 18651925 | 199 |
Haruka Yanagisawa | 239 |
18701921 | 280 |
and Japan | 311 |
international perspective | 356 |
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