Landholdings, Production and Rural Trade in India, 1760-1930 : A comparative study of Indian and Japanese economic history

1.该项目旨在阐明在英国统治下印度当地农业社会的变化，特别侧重于确定农业变化的内部力量。1992年7月，我们在大学南亚项目研讨会上提交了8篇论文。伦敦，由我们的研究项目的对口单位，大学南亚研究中心组织的。伦敦的。伦敦和印度的档案馆和图书馆也收集了相关的原始材料。在该项目的第二年，一些人再次访问了印度和英国，以进一步收集材料。11月，我们邀请了两名来自英国的成员，在东京举办了一次研讨会。该项目的成果是：P.Robb，K.Sugihara和H.Yanagisawa主编，《殖民地印度的地方农会：日本人的视角》，1992。主要发现如下：(1)在印度南部，由于18世纪有影响力的个人的发展，由大约10个村庄组成的生殖单位处于解体的过程中。我们的研究揭示了孟加拉富裕农民的增长和泰米尔纳德邦低种姓农民的出现。因此，印度和日本都存在农业变革的内在动力。(2)我们的研究强调了小生产单位引进劳动密集型技术的重要性。对印度本土制糖工业和印度南部农业发展的考察表明了这一点。(3)马拉巴的农村结构比日本明治的农村结构复杂得多。应该建立一个以印度为中心的比较框架。

1. The project aims to clarify the changes in the local agrarian society in India under British rule, particularly focussing on identification of internal forces of change in agriculture.In July 1992, we presented eight papers at the SOAS South Asia Project Workshop at the Univ. of London, organized by the counterpart of our research project, the Center for South Asian Studies, SOAS, Univ. of London. Related source materials were also collected at the archives and libraries in London and India.In the second year of the project, some again visited India and Britain to further collect materials. In November, with two members invited from UK, we held a workshop in Tokyo. The outcome of the project is : P.Robb, K.Sugihara and H.Yanagisawa eds., Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India : Japanese Perspectives, 1994.2.The main findings are as follows : (1) In south India, the unit of reproduction comprising some 10 villages was in the process of disintegration as a result of the growth of influential individuals in the 18th century. Our research reveals a growth of rich farmers in Bengal and emergence of low-caste farmers in Tamilnadu. Thus internal forces of change in agriculture existed in India as well as in Japan.(2) Our research highlighted the importance of the introduction of the labor intensive technology by small production units. The examination of Indian indigenous sugar industry and the agrarian development of south India points to this.(3) The rural structure in Malabar was much more complicated than that in Meiji Japan. An India-centered comparative framework should be built.