TY  - BOOK
AU  - Choudhury,Nurul H.
ED  - Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
TI  - Peasant radicalism in nineteenth century Bengal: the Faraizi, Indigo, and Pabna movements 
AV  - DS485.B49 C486 2001
U1  - 954.92 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Dhaka
PB  - Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
KW  - Peasant uprisings
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - History
KW  - Indigo industry
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Bengal (India)
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Toronto, 1991); Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index; Machine generated contents note: Theories of Peasant Movements in South Asia -- Agrarian Setting of Bengal in the late -- 18th and early 19th Centuries -- The Faraizi Movement - -- The indigo Movement -- The Pabna Movement -- General Observations -- 1. FARAIZI, INDIGO AND PABNA MOVEMENTS: -- THE BACKGROUND -- Pre-colonial and Colonial Land Tenure Systems -- Colonial Commercial Policy -- Commercialization of Agriculture, -- jotedars and Socio-economic Change -- 2. THE FARAIZI MOVEMENT -- Islamic Ideology and Political Change -- The Faraizi Movement: A Historical Overview -- Anti-Faraizi Coalition: Zamindars, Planters and the Raj -- Faraizi Quest for Autonomy -- Strategy of the Movement: Non-cooperation -- Strategy of the Movement: Violence -- 3. THE INDIGO MOVEMENT -- History of Indigo Cultivation in !engal -- Planters, Zamindars and Ryots -- Dynamics of Indig'o esistance Movement -- Missionaries and Indigo Ryots -- British Indian Association and Indigo Ryots -- Individual Magistrates and Indigo Ryots -- Indigo Ryots' Defiance -- Leadership of the Movement -- 4. THE PABNA MOVEMENT -- Rack-renting -- Grievances of Occupancy Tenants -- Impact of Jute Cultivation -- Organization and Leadership of the Movement -- Government Policy towards the Movement -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001294133.html
ER  -