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Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920. By Michelle Burge McAlpin. Princeton University Press, 1983.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Crispin N. Bates
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 866 - 871
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References

1 Sen, A. K., Poverty and Famine: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (Oxford, 1981).Google Scholar

2 Perlin, Frank, ‘Of White Whale and Countrymen in the Eighteenth Century Maratha Deccan. Extended Class Relations, Rights, and the Problem of Rural Autonomy Under the Old Regime‘, Journal of Peasant Studies, 5, 2 (London, 01 1978).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Bates, Crispin N., ‘Regional Dependence and Rural Development in Central India, 1820–1930‘, unpublished Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, 1984.Google Scholar

4 Guha, Sumit, ‘The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818–1941‘, unpublished Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, 1981.Google Scholar Guha concentrates on the techno-economic limitations on risk-taking decision making. For an attempt at a wider appraisal of the limits imposed by the social relations of production see Banaji, J., ‘Capitalist Domination and the Small Peasantry: Deccan Districts in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Economic and Political Weekly, Special Number (Bombay, 08 1977).Google Scholar

5 A good starting point would be the Indian Central Cotton Committee's General Report on Eight Investigations into the Finance and Marketing of Cultivators' Cotton (Bombay, 1928).Google Scholar

6 A well-balanced summary of this debate is available in Charlesworth, Neil, British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800–1914 (London, 1982), pp. 32–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 See, for example, Census of India, 1921, vol. XI, pt 1, pp. 18–19.Google Scholar