The Famine of 1896-1897 in Bengal : Availability or Entitlement Crisis? (Hardcover)

Contents

List of Tables and Charts----------------------------vi
Preface...................................viii
List of Abbreviations.........................X

Introduction............................1
1. The Agricultural-Ecological Environment..................10
2. Institutional Framework of Peasant Agriculture...................94
3. Famines in Bengal during 1866–96: Availability or Exchange Crisis?.......................202
4. Nature and Impact of the Shortfall in Agricultural Production (1896-1897)..........................245
5. The First Signs of Scarcity and Entitlement Failure ......................293
6. Increasing Intensity of the Famine: The Behavioural Pattern of the Superordinate Groups.......................341
7. Pull Failure and the Generation of Purchasing Power.................................364
8. The Response Failure in 1896-97: Directions and Problems of Grain Trade'..............................396

Epilogue..............................442
Appendix A: Volume of Rural Indebtedness...........................474
Appendix B: Lease between a Jotedar and Chukanidar in the Terai Region...........................477
Map 1: The Affected Areas in the Lower Provinces of Bengal during the Famine of 1896-97....................................478
Map 2: Flow of Grain Trade in the Presidency Division in 1896-97............................479
Glossary............................. 480
Bibliography...................................491
Index..........................................507