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

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.

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

History

Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha

Asia

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

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