The author finds that agrarian radicalism develops most readily in a way analogous to industrial class struggle: through the economic clash of homogeneous and polarized groups within the agrarian sector Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Figures, pg. ix*List of Tables, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xvii*List of Abbreviations, pg. xx*CHAPTER 1. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2 The Sources of Agrarian Radicalism: Theoretical Considerations, pg. 12*CHAPTER 3. Approaches to the Study of Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 47*CHAPTER 4. Thanjavur District, pg. 71*CHAPTER 5. Agrarian Variability in Thanjavur: The Agro-Economic Zones, pg. 102*CHAPTER 6. Agrarian Structure and Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 136*CHAPTER 7. Agricultural Labor and Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 158*CHAPTER 8. Tenancy and Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 182*CHAPTER 9. Technological Change and Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 219*CHAPTER 10. The Mobilization of Agrarian Radicalism, pg. 251*CHAPTER 11. Conclusion: Modernization and Agrarian Society, pg. 297*Appendix, pg. 311*Selected Bibliography, pg. 314*Index, pg. 325