Early Capitalism and Local History in South India

by David E. Ludden

This study of the Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu challenges the conventional view that subsistence, isolation, and immobility characterized Indian villages before 'modern' times. Exmanining the agrarian history of Tirunelveli during the millennium before 1900, David Ludden shows that peasant comminities not only transformed rural society but shaped states and empires, including British India. This edition also has a new preface.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195674847
• ISBN13: 9780195674842
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 342 Pages