Crop Trends in the Central Provinces of India, 1861–1921

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Harnetty
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural History ◽  
Cropping Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Subject ◽  
Agricultural Trends

In the opening chapter of his study of Agricultural Trends in India, 1891–1947, George Blyn explains the double significance of determining crop production trends in a society where agriculture is the largest single sector of the economy. Firstly, crop trends reveal the nature of changes in production and provide the basis for estimating changes in consumption. Secondly, since availability of crops for consumption depends not only on output but also on foreign trade, changes in cropping patterns provide a basis for estimating the pace and direction of commercialization of the economy. Blyn's study covers the fifty-six years before Indian independence and provides detailed analysis of such topics as aggregate crop trends for the eighteen crops that constituted most of India's agriculture. More recently, there have been a number of studies concerned with the agricultural history of nineteenth-century India. My own work is concerned with the social and economic history of the Central Provinces for the period 1861–1921. Within this broad subject an important specific topic is that of cropping patterns. This paper provides data on crop trends in this part of India for a period of fifty-four years from 1867 to 1921 and evaluates and analyzes this data. Its object is to establish the broad trends in cropping patterns and to shed some light on methods of agriculture in the Central Provinces in the later nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century. (Provincial data are given in Tables 1.1 and 1.2 at the end of the paper.)

Sharī‘a Court Registers and Land Tenure around Nineteenth-Century Damascus

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
James A. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The importance of sharī‘a law-court registers as sources for the social and economic history of Syria/Bilād al-Shām in the Ottoman period has been recognized for some time. A number of studies based on them have appeared, but the registers are so vast that scholars have in fact barely begun to investigate them. The Historical Documents Center (Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhīya) in Damascus holds over one thousand volumes. Additional originals exist in Israel/Palestine and a large collection of Syrian and Palestinian registers is available on microfilm at the University of Jordan (Amman). Although it is difficult to use the Lebanese registers nowadays (and those of Sidon may have been destroyed) a volume of the Tripoli registers from the seventeenth century has been published in facsimile by the Lebanese University. Dearth of material, therefore, is not a problem. One obstacle facing researchers, however, is unfamiliarity with the manner in which the registers present information. Persons whose native tongue is not Arabic have the additional problem of language to overcome. Therefore, an orientation to the registers is helpful, and this article is written with that purpose in mind.

Studies in the Social and Economic History of Ostia: Part I

1935 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick H. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Serious excavation of the archaeological remains of Ostia really began only in the early years of the present century. Spasmodic work upon the site was, it is true, undertaken during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the earliest excavators, De Norogna, Volpato, La Piccola, Hamilton and Fagan, were little more than treasure-hunters, more intent upon gaining possession of some artistic masterpiece than upon elucidating the problems of the past. Even the distinguished archaeologists of the nineteenth century, Visconti, Lanciani and Gatti, worked at Ostia only spasmodically, and often failed to publish adequate accounts of their discoveries. Nor were serious attempts made to protect from the ravages ofrainand frost the buildings unearthed.

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