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The Hidden String is a remarkable study undertaken over a two-and-a-half decades and revisited after a gap of three decades. It examines the intricate relationship between agricultural practices and institutional frameworks in rural Bengal in the colonial period. At its core, the work elaborates two fundamental concepts: the nature of agricultural production and the institutional structures that governed it. The analysis of agrarian systems reveals how cultivation patterns were linked to ecological constraints and climate rhythms. Particular attention is paid to Bengal's principal crops-aus and aman-whose cultivation cycles shaped not only agricultural practices but also broader socio-economic patterns of rural life. The book also examines traditional water management systems, which not only consolidated power structures within village communities but also triggered peasant resistance.

About the Author :
Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri retired as Professor at the University of Calcutta. He was Professor of economic and social history at the university from 1960 to 1997. Across his decades-long career he has also been Visiting Fellow at the University of Heidelberg; the University of Michigan; the University of California at Berkeley; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme; the University of Rotterdam; Hitotsubashi University; School of Oriental and African Studies; and Kyoto University. His areas of expertise deal with colonial Indian history with a particular geographical focus on Bengal, and he has explored themes such as the commercialization of agriculture, the peasantry and agrarian relations, de-peasantization and dispossession, and tribal movements and rebellions. He is the author of numerous articles (and two important chapters in the Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. II) on these themes, as well as several books, including Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India; Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal, 1750-1900; and an edited volume, Economic History of India from Eighteenth to Twentieth Century.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789370335912
  • Publisher: Ratna Sagar Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 9370335919
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 934
  • Returnable: N


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