Author: Neale, Walter C.
Title: Economic Change in Rural India. Land Tenure & Reform in Uttar Pradesh, 1800 - 1955
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xii,333 pp, Series: Yale Studies in Economics, 12.. Textual map & tables. Name inked on flyleaf,slight corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Problem; The Place; Before the British; The Years of Company Rule: From the Conquest to the Mutiny; The Quiet Years of Imperial Rule: From the Mutiny to World War I; The Years of Turmoil; World War I to Independence; The Revenue Officers & Assessment: Unrecognized Socialism; The State of Agriculture; Why the Market Failed: The Wrong Reasons; The Right Reasons; The Arguments of the Zamindari Abolition Committee; The Zamindari Abolition Act; What Zamindari Abolition Accomplished; Consolidation & Economic Holdings; People, Land & the Market Mechanism; Digest of the History of Land Tenure in Uttar Pradesh.

Keywords: Uttar Pradesh, Land Tenure, Colonial, Economic History, India, South Asia, Rural Economics, Zamindari Abolition, Agricultural Reform