The Indian Peasant Uprooted: A Study of the Human Machine

Author(s): Read, Margaret

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Longmans, Green
Publication Year:	1931
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	017319
Catalogue(s):	Uncategorized

xi, 258pp; four black and white photographic plates (inc. frontispiece). Grey cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine ends, boards mottled at fore edges. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges and endpapers starting to tan and fox. Rubber date stamp on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has soiling, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. Margaret Read took the evidence and statistics from the report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India (eighteen volumes) as a basis for this study of the Indian peasant with some instances of individual lives.

Keywords:

Sociology India