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This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870¿1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state.

First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia.

First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world.

First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part.

In Lives, an extraordinary writer encounters some remarkable people - and evokes their inner worlds.Peter Robb has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of his profile subjects: to show them in a new light, to home in on what makes them tick. In Australia, these range from Alex Dimitriades to Ivan Milat, from Marcia Langton to Julian Assange. In Italy, Robb immerses the reader in the worlds of Fellini, Caravaggio, Calvino and Pasolini. Else...

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This volume examines whether there were South Asian concepts of race, or, as has often been argued, race became an issue in the subcontinent only under Western influence after the eighteenth century.

Dall'infanzia in Lombardia al lungo periodo trascorso a Roma, fino ai trionfi professionali e alla catastrofe esistenziale degli ultimi anni con la condanna per omicidio, la fuga a Napoli e a Malta, il carcere, l'evasione e la misteriosa morte, di cui si svela qui l'inedito retroscena. In queste pagine rivive l'uomo Caravaggio, in tutta la sua potente drammaticità, insieme all'artista che per primo ha osato dipingere il mondo in tutta la sua b...

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The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

This text analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy.

In this collection written over a period of almost two decades, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, property law, and commercial production, and the emergence of political identities. He investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification, "capitalist" agriculture, and definitions of labor in relation to the British Empire.

In these essays written over a decade, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, identifies links between liberal rhetoric and modern technology and governance and connects them to the building of identities, including the nation. The volume investigates the role played by the British Empire in the creation of modern India.

Robb's portrayal of Calcutta around 1800 again focuses on middling Europeans and the workings of friendship. It shows friendly norms and networks underwriting credit, securing jobs, shaping work-practices, facilitating town-development, and mediating for law and administration, while mostly excluding Indian employers, partners, agents, and employees. Europeans' personal experiences and mores assisted the evolution and acceptance of public regu...

This book along with its companion (Sex and Sensibility) uses Richard Blechynden's diaries to present an account of everyday life in early colonial Bengal. It deals with the interactions between the Europeans and the Indians.

This book along with its companion (Sentiment and Self) uses Richard Blechynden's diaries to present an account of everyday life in early colonial Bengal. It deals with issues like sexuality, concubines and dynamics of households in colonial Bengal.

Reissue of the ground-breaking biography of Michaelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio.

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