| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Asia

David Ludden. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 4, part 4, An Agrarian History of South Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 261. $64.95.

David Ludden's contribution to the New Cambridge History of India series provides an ambitious longue durée study of the agrarian history of the subcontinent over the past two thousand years. Ludden is well-qualified for the task; he had already adopted such an approach on a more confined canvas in his much-acclaimed Peasant History in South India (1985). Here, however, he is dealing with a vast region with many diverse systems of agrarian power, so it becomes much harder to trace out any strong and unifying themes. He avoids being at all dogmatic, describing a number of interweaving developments over time that together have created the complex mosaic that is rural South Asia today. . . .

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