David Hall‐Matthews
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5442148 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Hall‐Matthews |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Hall‐Matthews |
| ASSINATURA | MATTHEWS D H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Liberal Democrat influence on coalition international development policy
Inaccurate Conceptions
From the 1870s onwards, debates about famine policy were central to both colonial and nationalist conceptions of the role, effectiveness and legitimacy of the state in India. Although opinions on how best to relieve famines varied, ideological opposition to a narrow laissez-faire paradigm was given short shrift in the years preceding the formulation of the Indian Famine Codes. However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing o…
Conclusion
This book has attempted to reassert the centrality of state policy in assessment of the origins of poverty, vulnerability, unrest and famine among supposedly productive peasants in colonial western India. Analysis of the impact of state legislation, investment, taxation, welfare measures and relief — or lack of them — on agrarian society in Ahmednagar between 1870 and 1884 suggests that close involvement with the state was not to the population’s…
Market Opportunities, Risks and Failures
This chapter examines the way in which agricultural markets affected peasant producers in Ahmednagar district, from the period of the cotton boom engendered by the American civil war, through the global recession of the 1870s to the period of famine crisis and its aftermath. An attempt is made to contrast the necessary conditions for market-led growth with those prevailing in the district at the time. The aim is to ask whether, in a poor dryland …
Land Revenue Rigidity, Revisions and Non-remission
In earlier chapters, it has been argued that poor Ahmednagar peasants’ chronic struggle was not fully appreciated by the upper echelons of the colonial state. Their struggle was often exacerbated, particularly through the ryotwari land revenue system, with which this chapter is concerned. It has been suggested that this put pressure on cultivators to take both exploitative loans and unwanted risks. Thus the fiscal interests of the state came into…
Landholding, Peasant Production and Rainfall
Ahmednagar district is situated in the Bombay Deccan, due east of Bombay city, bordering Poona district to its southwest, and, in the British colonial period, the Nizam of Hyderabad’s Dominions, in an untidy and often renegotiated border to the east. Its total area was 6666 square miles, with a population according to the 1881 census of 751,228, at an average density of 112.69 people per square mile. 1 As the average household comprised as many a…
Rural Moneylending, Credit Legislation and Peasant Protest
In previous chapters it has been seen that indebtedness was widespread among Ahmednagar’s peasantry and that the agrarian structure of the district was such that rural moneylenders commanded almost all local capital. Though village sowcars were mostly small operators, dependent on their urban kinsmen for their own resources, the extent of peasants’ thrall allowed monopolistic Marwari lenders to control production and extract its surplus value wit…
Peasants and Relief Labour
Having examined the way in which two factors of production — land and capital — as well as markets put Ahmednagar peasants at a natural disadvantage by their low quality and unavailability, it now remains to focus on labour. Social relations of labour have already been discussed in the context of markets and credit. Relatively few ryots in the district were in a position to employ wage labourers. Rather, family members and peasants themselves oft…
Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detai
Famines in (South) Asia
Most historical studies of South Asian famines have appropriately taken a political economy approach, allowing them to critique colonial governance and free trade policy. It would be useful to see more work on social and enviromental aspects of famine. There is a danger, however, typified by Mike Davis’ recent book, that analysis of the role of climate in causing famine can depoliticise the problem. Further studies are still needed of the politic…
Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884
Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms
The principles upon which famine policies are based have changed less than might be expected over the last century. This paper examines the origins of the Indian Famine Codes of the 1880s, which set the administrative and, it is argued, paradigmatic precedent for famine relief in 'developing' countries, managed by 'developed' ones. In particular, the still-current questions of avoiding the creation of dependency through over-generous aid and of r…
Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detai
Inaccurate Conceptions
From the 1870s onwards, debates about famine policy were central to both colonial and nationalist conceptions of the role, effectiveness and legitimacy of the state in India. Although opinions on how best to relieve famines varied, ideological opposition to a narrow laissez-faire paradigm was given short shrift in the years preceding the formulation of the Indian Famine Codes. However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing o…
Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms
The principles upon which famine policies are based have changed less than might be expected over the last century. This paper examines the origins of the Indian Famine Codes of the 1880s, which set the administrative and, it is argued, paradigmatic precedent for famine relief in 'developing' countries, managed by 'developed' ones. In particular, the still-current questions of avoiding the creation of dependency through over-generous aid and of r…
Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884
Liberal Democrat influence on coalition international development policy
Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms
The principles upon which famine policies are based have changed less than might be expected over the last century. This paper examines the origins of the Indian Famine Codes of the 1880s, which set the administrative and, it is argued, paradigmatic precedent for famine relief in 'developing' countries, managed by 'developed' ones. In particular, the still-current questions of avoiding the creation of dependency through over-generous aid and of r…
Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884
Famines in (South) Asia
Most historical studies of South Asian famines have appropriately taken a political economy approach, allowing them to critique colonial governance and free trade policy. It would be useful to see more work on social and enviromental aspects of famine. There is a danger, however, typified by Mike Davis’ recent book, that analysis of the role of climate in causing famine can depoliticise the problem. Further studies are still needed of the politic…
Conclusion
This book has attempted to reassert the centrality of state policy in assessment of the origins of poverty, vulnerability, unrest and famine among supposedly productive peasants in colonial western India. Analysis of the impact of state legislation, investment, taxation, welfare measures and relief — or lack of them — on agrarian society in Ahmednagar between 1870 and 1884 suggests that close involvement with the state was not to the population’s…
Market Opportunities, Risks and Failures
This chapter examines the way in which agricultural markets affected peasant producers in Ahmednagar district, from the period of the cotton boom engendered by the American civil war, through the global recession of the 1870s to the period of famine crisis and its aftermath. An attempt is made to contrast the necessary conditions for market-led growth with those prevailing in the district at the time. The aim is to ask whether, in a poor dryland …
Land Revenue Rigidity, Revisions and Non-remission
In earlier chapters, it has been argued that poor Ahmednagar peasants’ chronic struggle was not fully appreciated by the upper echelons of the colonial state. Their struggle was often exacerbated, particularly through the ryotwari land revenue system, with which this chapter is concerned. It has been suggested that this put pressure on cultivators to take both exploitative loans and unwanted risks. Thus the fiscal interests of the state came into…
Landholding, Peasant Production and Rainfall
Ahmednagar district is situated in the Bombay Deccan, due east of Bombay city, bordering Poona district to its southwest, and, in the British colonial period, the Nizam of Hyderabad’s Dominions, in an untidy and often renegotiated border to the east. Its total area was 6666 square miles, with a population according to the 1881 census of 751,228, at an average density of 112.69 people per square mile. 1 As the average household comprised as many a…
Rural Moneylending, Credit Legislation and Peasant Protest
In previous chapters it has been seen that indebtedness was widespread among Ahmednagar’s peasantry and that the agrarian structure of the district was such that rural moneylenders commanded almost all local capital. Though village sowcars were mostly small operators, dependent on their urban kinsmen for their own resources, the extent of peasants’ thrall allowed monopolistic Marwari lenders to control production and extract its surplus value wit…
Peasants and Relief Labour
Having examined the way in which two factors of production — land and capital — as well as markets put Ahmednagar peasants at a natural disadvantage by their low quality and unavailability, it now remains to focus on labour. Social relations of labour have already been discussed in the context of markets and credit. Relatively few ryots in the district were in a position to employ wage labourers. Rather, family members and peasants themselves oft…
Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detai
Inaccurate Conceptions
From the 1870s onwards, debates about famine policy were central to both colonial and nationalist conceptions of the role, effectiveness and legitimacy of the state in India. Although opinions on how best to relieve famines varied, ideological opposition to a narrow laissez-faire paradigm was given short shrift in the years preceding the formulation of the Indian Famine Codes. However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing o…
Liberal Democrat influence on coalition international development policy
Economics (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Development economics (9 obras) · Famine (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Colonialism (6 obras) · Social and Economic Development in India (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras)