The peasant production of opium in Nineteenth-century India /
نام عام مواد
[Book]
نام نخستين پديدآور
by Rolf Bauer.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Boston :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
[2019]
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)
فروست
عنوان فروست
Library of economic history,
مشخصه جلد
volume 12
شاپا ي ISSN فروست
1877-3206 ;
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
The creation of a system -- The functioning of a system -- A local-level analysis of an opium district : Saran -- The costs and benefits of poppy cultivation -- The mechanics of a system : incentives, coercion and dependence.
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"The Peasant Production of Opium in 19th Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context"--
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عنوان
Peasant production of opium in 19th century India.