Author: Crooke, William [1848 - 1923] [ Amin, Shahid; editor: ]
Title: A Glossary of North Indian Peasant Life
Description: Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. liv,290,(12)pp, 22x14cm, Edited, with an introduction, notes, and appendices by Shahid Amin.. 12pp plates.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ An enlarged edition of "Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh" (1879). ["William Crooke of the Indian Civil Service is remembered as a pioneering colonial ethnographer and historian. His Glossary will be an invaluable work of reference to every scholar of South Asian history, sociology, social and economic organization, village technology, peasant studies, and Third World societies" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Indian Colonial History, North India, Peasantry, Peasant Colonial, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Sociology History, British Raj, Agricultural Labor, Ethnology