Publisher's Synopsis
Recent historiography of India has concentrated on the intricate and complex links between the apparently antagonistic forces of imperialism and nationalism in the subcontinent. Particular attention has been paid to the influence of political organization and party practice on this antagonism. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the gradual burgeoning of Indian nationalist forces in the century preceding Independence was just as much in response to the social and economic impact of the West on India as to any political impact.;This book reflects the increasing interest throughout Third World studies in the role played by the peasantry as a class, and by specific groups within that class, in political and revolutionary mass movements.
