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Peasant radicalism in nineteenth century Bengal : the Faraizi, Indigo, and Pabna movements / Nurul H. Choudhury.

By: Choudhury, Nurul H.
Contributor(s): Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dhaka : Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2001Description: 188 p. ; 25 cm.Other title: Peasant radicalism in 19th century Bengal.Subject(s): Peasant uprisings -- India -- Bengal -- History | Indigo industry -- India -- Bengal -- History | Radicalism -- India -- Bengal -- History | Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 954.92 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Theories of Peasant Movements in South Asia -- Agrarian Setting of Bengal in the late -- 18th and early 19th Centuries -- The Faraizi Movement - -- The indigo Movement -- The Pabna Movement -- General Observations -- 1. FARAIZI, INDIGO AND PABNA MOVEMENTS: -- THE BACKGROUND -- Pre-colonial and Colonial Land Tenure Systems -- Colonial Commercial Policy -- Commercialization of Agriculture, -- jotedars and Socio-economic Change -- 2. THE FARAIZI MOVEMENT -- Islamic Ideology and Political Change -- The Faraizi Movement: A Historical Overview -- Anti-Faraizi Coalition: Zamindars, Planters and the Raj -- Faraizi Quest for Autonomy -- Strategy of the Movement: Non-cooperation -- Strategy of the Movement: Violence -- 3. THE INDIGO MOVEMENT -- History of Indigo Cultivation in !engal -- Planters, Zamindars and Ryots -- Dynamics of Indig'o esistance Movement -- Missionaries and Indigo Ryots -- British Indian Association and Indigo Ryots -- Individual Magistrates and Indigo Ryots -- Indigo Ryots' Defiance -- Leadership of the Movement -- 4. THE PABNA MOVEMENT -- Rack-renting -- Grievances of Occupancy Tenants -- Impact of Jute Cultivation -- Organization and Leadership of the Movement -- Government Policy towards the Movement -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Toronto, 1991).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Theories of Peasant Movements in South Asia -- Agrarian Setting of Bengal in the late -- 18th and early 19th Centuries -- The Faraizi Movement - -- The indigo Movement -- The Pabna Movement -- General Observations -- 1. FARAIZI, INDIGO AND PABNA MOVEMENTS: -- THE BACKGROUND -- Pre-colonial and Colonial Land Tenure Systems -- Colonial Commercial Policy -- Commercialization of Agriculture, -- jotedars and Socio-economic Change -- 2. THE FARAIZI MOVEMENT -- Islamic Ideology and Political Change -- The Faraizi Movement: A Historical Overview -- Anti-Faraizi Coalition: Zamindars, Planters and the Raj -- Faraizi Quest for Autonomy -- Strategy of the Movement: Non-cooperation -- Strategy of the Movement: Violence -- 3. THE INDIGO MOVEMENT -- History of Indigo Cultivation in !engal -- Planters, Zamindars and Ryots -- Dynamics of Indig'o esistance Movement -- Missionaries and Indigo Ryots -- British Indian Association and Indigo Ryots -- Individual Magistrates and Indigo Ryots -- Indigo Ryots' Defiance -- Leadership of the Movement -- 4. THE PABNA MOVEMENT -- Rack-renting -- Grievances of Occupancy Tenants -- Impact of Jute Cultivation -- Organization and Leadership of the Movement -- Government Policy towards the Movement -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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