Author: Alavi, Hamza & Harriss, John; editor:
Title: South Asia [Sociology of "Developing Societies"]
Description: New York, Monthly Review Press, (1989). orig.boards. 22x14cm, xv,324 pp, Series: Sociology of "Developing Societies. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 24 papers. Includes: H. Alavi "Formation of the Social Structure of South Asia under the Impact of Colonialism"; T.G. Kessinger "Changes in the Agrarian Economy of Vilyatpur 1848-1968"; C. Fuller "British India or Traditional India? Land, Caste and Power"; T. Byres "Agrarian Structure, the New Technology & Class Action in India"; A. Hussain "Pakistan: Land Reforms Reconsidered"; J. Harriss "Indian Industrialization & the State"; S. Kochanek "Business & Politcs in India"; R. Sobhan "Bangladesh & the World Economic System: The Crisis of External Dependence"; R. Ballard " Effects of Labour Migration from Pakistan"; J. Harriss "The Formation of Indian Society: Ideology & Power"; G. Omvedt "Class, Caste & Land in India"; J. Breman "The Disintegration of the Hali System"; U. Sharma "Women, Work & Property in North-West India"; D. Washbrook "Ethnicity in Contemporary Indian Politics"; D. Chakrabarty "Communal Riots & Labor: Bengal's Jute-Mill-Hands in the 1890s"; M. Weiner "Indian's Preferential Politics"; A.A. Engineer "Bombay-Bhiwandi Riots in National Political Perspective"; B. Joshi "Untouchable! Voices of Dalit Liberation"; H. Alavi "Politics of Ethnicity in India & Pakistan"; N. Gunasinghe "Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Perceptions & Solutions"; R. Chandavarkar "Workers' Politics & the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the Wars"; J. Breman " Particularism & Scarcity: Urban Labour Markets & Social Classes"; K. Gough "Peasant Resistance & Revolt in South India"; G. Omvedt "Ecology & Social Movements".

Keywords: Political Sociology, South Asia Class, India Pakistan, Social Politics, Classes Economy, Economic Economics, Labor Ethnicity, Historical Labour, Colonial History