Book ID: CBB736218379

Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950): Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugarcane (2014)

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Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha (Author)


Partridge India


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 486
Language: English

"This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the his-tory of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demonstrates the dynamism of cash-crop production systems and how these systems influenced each other. Second, it explores how colonial state policy came to stimulate research-based agronomic interventions, often with unintended consequences. And finally, it shows how cash cropping entangled South Asians and Europeans in new forms of struggle and cooperation. This meticulous and illuminating study deserves a wide readership." Willem van Schendel, professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam.

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Authors & Contributors
Seitz, John Britton
Anja Timmermann
Jim Mills
Brixius, Dorit
Besky, Sarah
Fagnani, Martino Lorenzo
Concepts
Agriculture
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Colonialism
Plantations
Agronomy
Farmers
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
India
England
West Africa
Gambia
Angola
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