Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India

David Hardiman
Oxford
1997
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Summary: 
From Google Books: "This book provides important insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India--that between peasants and usurers. It explores the relationship in a rounded way, examining how states extended support to usurers, as well as how Baniyas exerted a power that was both economic and ideological."
Language: 
English