The penetration of capitalism and Agrarian change in Southwest India, 1901 to 1941
A preliminary analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Tharamangalam (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-62 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1984.10409783 |
| OpenAlex | W2326912130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
It is now widely recognized that the penetration of a world-wide, capitalist market economy has been a critical process in the transformation of traditional peasant societies. This paper examines some aspects of this process in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in southwest India, the most important of the three regions that were unified to form the present Malayalam speaking state of Kerala. Today Kerala is well known for its many unique features, among them its strong agrarian movement, grass roots political mobilization, and the progressive social policies of its left governments. It is perhaps not equally well known that it was Kerala's spices that brought the European trading companies into India's coasts in the first place and that since that time the increasing cultivation of cash crops for the world market has had a radical impact on Kerala's social structure. In Travancore this process became greatly accelerated in the twentieth century with the opening of capitalist plantations in the hill regions and the reclamation of backwater areas along the coast for commercial paddy cultivation. Indeed by 1921 a little less than half the cropped area of Travancore was under cash-crop cultivation. This paper will confine itself to Travancore. It will analyze some aspects of the penetration of capitalism into Travancore and the consequent transformation of agriculture with the aim of revealing the region's unique social and political developments
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Capitalism · Cash crop · Economics · Economy · Geography · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |