...Anand A. Yang Government, Landlord and Peasant in India: Agrarian Relations Under British Rule, 1865–1935 . By Dietmar Rothermund . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH (Schriftenreihe des Sudasien-Instituts der Universität Heidelberg, Band 25), 1978 . xii, 211 pp. Maps, Bibliography...

...Mi Chu Wiens Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China: Case Studies from Shandong. [Ch'ing-tai Shan-tung ching-ying ti-chu ti she-hui hsing-chih] . By Jing Su and Luo Lun . Translated by Endymion Wilkinson . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1978 . xiii, 310 pp. Appendixes...

..., the business of writing history has become more complicated. The purpose of this paper is to give some account of the treatment Japanese historians have afforded one such large category of individuals who can no longer be ignored in recounting the history of Meiji Japan, namely “the landlords.” Copyright ©...

...Burton Stein Land, Landlords, and the British Raj: Northern India in the Nineteenth Century . By Thomas R. Metcalf . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1979 . xiv, 385 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliographic Note, Index. $22.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Stephen Vlastos Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite . By Ann Waswo . Berkeley : The University of California Press , 1977 . vii, 152 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 580 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Anand A. Yang Tensions in Bengal Rural Society: Landlords, Planters and Colonial Rule, 1830–1860 . By Chittabrata Palit . Calcutta : Progressive Publishers , 1975 . xi, 226 pp. Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00; $6.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... as “monastic landlordism,” namely that there is an individual, a landlord, who owns land and commands tenants. 5 Evers Hans-Dieter , “ Buddhistische Gesellschaftsordnung und buddhistischer Wohlfahrtsstaat ” (Buddhist Society and Buddhist Welfarestate), Moderns Welt , Volume IV , No. 3...

...Ramon H. Myers; Adrienne Ching Abstract Studies of Asian agriculture have argued that land-tenure systems have often retarded agricultural development, in that unequal land distribution and widespread tenancy have given peasants little power to resist landlord efforts to squeeze and rack-rent them...

... Turbans, and provoked an empire-wide attack upon the landlords and the local officials. One key to the failure of the rebels to rise above the rioting phase lay in their inability to gain massive and sustained peasant support. The result was that the landlord gentry, leading peasant militia ( i-ping...

... to the landed aristocracy, whose influence in the countryside it had depended upon in the past, to provide the basis for an anti-revolutionary front. Initially, then, the non-cooperation movement served to refurbish the province's traditional landlord-based political system. It went further, however; and at one...

... exploited by a venal landlord class through the sweep of pre-modern Chinese history? Or would it be more accurate to say that, while the population suffered in times of epidemic or famine, there were long periods of plenty when relatively affluent farmers benefited from rising agricultural prices...

... through the first year of the Republic when he was most actively concerned with the promotion of min sheng fails to substantiate the agrarian reform interpretation. On the contrary, according to the available sources for this period, there are few explicit references to the excesses of rural landlordism...

...Francis L. K. Hsu Abstract The current belief is that China is a country where most land belongs to landlords who do not till their soil but suck the blood of their tenants. Dr. Sun, founder of the Chinese Republic, was under this impression when he specified in his program that “all tillers must...

..., intended to replace the elite history written by Confucian historiographers under the empire. Embodying Mao Tse-tung's belief that “the ruthless economic exploitations and political oppression of the peasantry by the landlord class forced the peasants to rise repeatedly in revolt against its rule” (Mao...

...Kang Chao Abstract The author analyzes some of the empirical data contained in the local archives of farmland in three provinces from Ming-Ch'ing times: these data have heretofore not been used by scholars. The new data show the wide dispersion of land ownership, the absence of big landlords...

... transshipment center for rice and goods from Southwest China to the middle and lower Yangtze. By the 1820s there was a tendency toward the collection of fixed rents in kind. Rent deposits, a major source of liquid capital for landlords, became an almost universal feature of Baxian leases. High deposits...

... not only extract surplus but also perpetuate peasants' credit dependency on the landlord. This credit dependency, in turn, creates a situation in which compulsive indebtedness gradually deprives the peasantry of the means of production (Bhaduri 1983, chaps. 4, 5). Finally, it is asserted, traditional rural...

...K. Sivaramakrishnan Abstract During the period from 1795 to 1850, the East India Company Raj in India viewed forests chiefly as limiting agriculture. In Bengal, forested lands, classified as wastelands, had been included in zamindari (landlord) estates (Ribbentrop 1900, 60). Colonial administrators...

... the dominance of either peasant or landlord simply by manipulating the Record of Rights and assessment rolls. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 1 On James Mill see his evidence to a House of Commons Committee 4 Aug. 1831 in Parliamentary Papers [Hereafter P. P.] 1831...

... of gentry into two important status groups which dominated the social scene of twentieth-century China, namely intelligentsia and landlord-gentry. Yet why has such an important watershed so far not received enough attention? Perhaps one reason is that in the past there has been a general tendency among...