Projects (choose one)

Projects (choose one) . Francis Buchanan published reports on several districts of eastern India. Read one report and collate the information available about rural society, focusing on the themes discussed in this chapter. Highlight the ways in which historians can use such texts. . In the region where you live, talk to the older people within a rural community and visit the fields they now cultivate. Find out what they produce, how they earn their livelihoods, what their parents did, what their sons and daughters do now, and how their lives have changed over the last years. Write a report based on your findings. If you would like to know more, read: Sugata Bose. . Agrarian Bengal. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Francis Buchanan. . Journal of Francis Buchanan Kept During the Survey of the District of Bhagalpur. Superintendent, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa, Patna. Ramachandra Guha. . The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalayas. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Sumit Guha. . The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, - . Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Ravinder Kumar. . Western India in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Maharashtra. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. Ratnalekha Ray. . Change in Bengal Agrarian Society, c. - . Manohar, New Delhi. Kumar Suresh Singh. . Dust-storm and the Hanging Mist: A Study of Birsa Munda and His Movement in Chhotanagpur ( - ). Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta.