The Colonial State, Capital and the Peasantry in Bombay Presidency

The Colonial State, Capital and the Peasantry in Bombay Presidency

Despite the commodification of land and labor in colonial Bombay Presidency, capitalism and its associated dynamic (modern economic growth via innovation, specialization, and so on resulting in the improved productiveness of labor) did not, by and large, develop. The colonial state reformed the prop...

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Veröffentlicht in:Modern Asian Studies. - Cambridge University Press, 1967. - 28(1994), 4, Seite 793-832
1. Verfasser: Kaiwar, Vasant (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1994
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Modern Asian Studies
Schlagworte:Biological sciences Behavioral sciences Social sciences Economics Law
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520 |a Despite the commodification of land and labor in colonial Bombay Presidency, capitalism and its associated dynamic (modern economic growth via innovation, specialization, and so on resulting in the improved productiveness of labor) did not, by and large, develop. The colonial state reformed the property structure, bringing the notion of a single owner for each property, ending the overlapping property rights of the pre-colonial regimes. Capital was freely deployed to make profits of alienation, if not profits of enterprise. Yet, small-scale family-labor farms continued as the backbone of Bombay agriculture. The peasantry could not sustain capitalist-style growth but did maintain a tenacious hold on the land with the help of the state, and its own capacity to endure horrendous levels of exploitation and poverty; the former symptomized by high land prices and low crop prices paid to the producer; the latter by mass peasant insolvency. The power of capital was in direct proportion to the peasants' desperate need for land and loans. The colonial state was fully aware that this kind of relationship was inimical to development, but did little to bring capital into a productive relationship with landed property. The colonial state came to resemble a classic agrarian bureaucracy rather than a capitalist state. Despite some commitments to modernization, it ruled over an impoverished agrarian society. This paper attempts to locate this result in the specific interests and interactions of the major social agents of rural Bombay: the state, capital and the peasantry. 
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