Land, Power, and Market: A Bihar District Under Colonial Rule, 1890-1947 |
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Contents
List of Abbreviations | 14 |
Introduction | 32 |
Champaran and Its People | 47 |
Copyright | |
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according acres agricultural annual average Bengal Bettiah Bihar cadastral survey castes Census cent century Champ Champaran Coll collected colonial Comm comparatively concerned cost crops cultivated cultivated area decline demand Department dependent Dept district economic effect estates fact factor famine field figures foodgrain given grain harvest holdings income increase India indigo interest investment irrigation labour land landlords less major matter means moneylender Muzaffarpur nature occupancy official operations opium para particularly Patna peasant percentage period population production profit raiyats reason recorded regards region relations remained rent Report represented result revisional survey rice rise rule Settlement situation social society soil sources statistics sugar sugarcane survey Table tenants thanas tion trend variation varied village wages whole yields zamindars