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Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India

Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India

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ISBN10: 0195639561
ISBN13: 9780195639568
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.75
Language: English
This book provides important insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India--that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurers, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both economic and ideological.

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