Agrarian India between the world wars : a study of colonial-feudal capitalism / Rostislav Ulyanovsky

Translated from Russian.
Reprint. Originally published: Moscow : Progress Publishers, [1985].

Foreword --
The evolution of India;'s Agrarian system --
The main features of India's Agrarian system after the first world war --
The landed estate in India and new features in British imperialism's Agrarian policy --
Agrarian relations in Bengal, an area of large landed property --
Indian merchant's and moneylender's capital as an agento of British finance capital --
The specifies of population movements in India under the crisis of colonial capitalism --
The influence of the world economic crisis (1929-1933) on the Indian countryside --
The levying of colonial tribute during the world economic crisis of 1929-1933 --
Notes.

In this book, the author has tried to present an integral work studying one of the most critical periods of and a turn­ing point in the colonial exploitation of India by British impe­rialism-that of the pre-crisis "flourishing" and the develop­ment of the world economic crisis from the end of the 1920s to almost the mid-1930s. The socio-economic analysis in this work discloses the evolution of India's agrarian structure. It covers chiefly the period between the two world wars, which was one of persistent and nation-wide anti-imperialist strug­gle and, in a number of Indian provinces, also.of an anti-feu­dal movement among the peasantry. It should be noted that it is precisely this period that is covered at best fragmentarily in contemporary socio-economic literature.