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100			_aKumar, Prakash _949272
245			_aPeter Robb, agrarian development in colonial India: The British and Bihar
260			_aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review
300			_a61(3). Jul-Sep, 2024: p.418-420
520			_aPeter Robb, Agrarian Development in Colonial India: The British and Bihar. Routledge, 2021, 285 pp. The new book by Peter Robb covers the two territories of the colonial agrarian history of Bihar and the history of agrarian development. Robb narrates the first of those within the primary template of colonial policy and its impact. For those familiar with Robb’s decades-long work on property, law, land and tenure in colonial Bihar, the novelty of the latest monograph lies in its interpretive leap wherein the book places agrarian history within the framework of a history of development. How does one write a history of development that has been characteristically associated with state actions backed by expertise and an intent to bring positive economic change within sovereign territories in the twentieth century? Is there a colonial version of development that is accessible to a historian’s eye? The book under review portrays a history of development as a history of state interventions by the colonial state.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00194646241256321
773			_aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review
906			_aBOOK REVIEW
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