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JOHN j.PAUL The Legal Profession in Colonial South India (Price: Rs. 250)
This book traces the development of Indian lawyers, otherwise known as pleaders or vakils, since the beginning of British rule in the Madras Presidency. By utilizing sources hitherto unavailable to scholars, Paul weaves his story of Madras vakils. The men who originally opted for a livelihood through law were characterized more by their pretensions ^nd subservience than by any degree of formal training or status. Frequently, judges criticized them, barristers disdained them, and attorneys competed with them for business. With better education and a little encouragement from judges, vakils slowly built up their practice after 1862 and established their own professional organization.
JAN BREMAN AND SUDIPTO MUNDLE (ED.)
Rural Transformation in Asia (Price: Rs. 210)
The agrarian question has remained one of the central and abiding concerns of classical political economy. That it should have been the focal point of political economic enquiry in the early years of the discipline is not very surprising. What is, however, intriguing is the persistence of this question today in the concluding years of the twentieth century. The question persists because it has not been resolved in those parts of the world (Asia and Latin America), which are yet to be industrialized. In these regions the agrarian question still remains at the centre of economic and political discourse. The papers in this volume form a part of this discourse.
MALAVIKA KARLEKAR
Voices from Within
Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women ^ (Price: Rs. 225)
These 'voices' belong to some remarkable and courageous women who questioned and commented on their own lives and times in nineteenth and twentieth-century Bengal. Excerpts from biographies, memories and letters have been used to bring them to life. This is a very well-researched anthropological study of an interesting period of Indian history as perceived by women, and as such fleshes out the available literature on the subject.
OMKAR GOSWAMI
Industry, Trade and Peasant Society
The Jute Economy of Eastern India 1900-1947 (Price: Rs. 2^5)
Despite the importance of the jute industry in the economy of colonial India, there 3'^as been no major analysis of the sector and its effects on eastern India. This book looks at the entire jute economy over the period 1900-1947. It challenges several orthodoxies regarding the nature of industrialization, the importance of product market cartels, the dynamics of agricultural commercialization, and the famine of 1943.
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