Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a
comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional
diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of
history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization
territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with
their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion
begins during the first millennium, when farming communities
displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the
development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian
capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate
how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to
reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative
synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the
book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian
and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
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