Author: Thakur, Vijay Kumar ; & Aounshuman, Ashok ; editors:
Title: Peasants in Indian History : Theoretical Issues and Structural Enquiries : Essays in Memory of Professor Radhakrishna Chaudhary
Description: Patna, Janaki Prakashan, 1996. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xi,511 pp.. Rubbed. Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Good. ¶ All published? Dustwrapper calls for two additional volumes, however OCLC shows no record of any further volumes ever being issued. Contains 27 papers concerning: Conceptualising thge Peasant; Historiographical Contours of Indian Peasant; The Early Indian Peasant; Ecological Dimensions of Agrarian Structure; Hydraulic Roots of Agrarian Order; Agrarian Structure: The Emerging Pattern; The Changing Pattern; The Lesser Peasants. Papers include: Kutumbikas opf Early India; Agrarian Structure in Konkan as Reflected through the Silahara Inscriptions; Landed Rights in Medieval Punjab: An Ecological Perspective; Dynamics of Hydraulic Activity & Agrarian Formatiion during the Mauryan & Post-Mauryan Times; Some Kharosthi Records Concerning Irrigation Co-operatives in the Kusana Period;Feudal Structures in the Village of Madarasa (Kathiawar) in AD 675; Agrarian Changes & the Peasantry in Early Medieval Orissa (ca. AD 400-1100); The Structure of Land Rights & Social Stratification of Early Medieval South India; Land Ownership Under the Chandellas: A Case Study of the Semra Copper Plate; Perspectives on the Land System of Early Medieval Punjab; Agrarian Relations in Dakshina Kannada District in Historical Perspective; Class Differentiation & Agrarian Mobilisation; The Peasant Question in Bengal in the Second Half of the 18th Century: A Note on the Marginal Peasants; Reflections on Rural Labour in Contemporary India, Tribal Peasantry in Bihar: A Structural Analysis; etc.

Keywords: Indian Agrarian History, Peasant Peasants, Medieval India, Colonial Economics, Economy Economic, Rural Sociology, South Asia, Peasantry, Land Tenure, Historiography