All Outputs (14)

Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy (1996)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1996). Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy. In P. Robb (Ed.), Meanings of agriculture: essays in South Asian history and economics (1-35). Oxford University Press

Distinctive Aspects of Rural Production in India: the Colonial Period (1996)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1996). Distinctive Aspects of Rural Production in India: the Colonial Period. In P. Robb, K. Sugihara, & H. Yanagisawa (Eds.), Local agrarian societies in colonial India: Japanese perspectives (1-47). Curzon Press

South Asia and the Concept of Race (1995)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1995). South Asia and the Concept of Race. In P. Robb (Ed.), The concept of race in South Asia (1-76). Oxford University Press

India and Britain: Some Reflections on their Material and Cultural Interaction since Independence (1994)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1994). India and Britain: Some Reflections on their Material and Cultural Interaction since Independence. In P. Robb, & N. Malik (Eds.), India and Britain: recent past and present challenges (3-30). Allied Publishers

Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage (1993)
Book Chapter
Menski, W. F. (1993). Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage. In D. Arnold, & P. Robb (Eds.), Institutions and ideologies: a SOAS South Asia reader (148-164). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036587-16

While the topic of arranged marriages among South Asians has generated some interest among researchers (Ballard, 1977-8; Brah, 1977-8), is often taken up by the media, and remains of tremendous importance to the South Asian communities in Britain the... Read More about Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage.

Meanings of Labour in Indian Social Context (1993)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1993). Meanings of Labour in Indian Social Context. In P. Robb (Ed.), Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India (1-67). Oxford University Press

The Impact of British Rule on Religious Community: Reflections on the Trial of Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna in 1865 (1993)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1993). The Impact of British Rule on Religious Community: Reflections on the Trial of Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna in 1865. In P. Robb (Ed.), Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet (142-176). Oxford University Press

Texts, Communities, and the History of Change in Modern South Asia (1993)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1993). Texts, Communities, and the History of Change in Modern South Asia. In P. Robb (Ed.), Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet (1-21). Oxford University Press

Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar (1993)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1993). Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar. In D. Arnold, & P. Robb (Eds.), Institutions and Ideologies. A SOAS South Asia Reader (201-223). Curzon Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036587-18

I wrote ten years ago about the need to employ the idea of resources rather than structures in understanding Indian rural society.3 I had discovered in nineteenth-century Bihar both the extreme variability of ranking year-by-year according to anyone... Read More about Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar.

Agrarian structure and economic development (1992)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1992). Agrarian structure and economic development. In P. Robb (Ed.), Agrarian structure and economic development: landed property in Bengal and theories of capitalism in Japan (1-23). School of Oriental and African Studies

The External Dimension in Rural South Asia (1983)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1983). The External Dimension in Rural South Asia. In P. Robb (Ed.), Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development (1-22). Curzon Press

State, Peasant and Moneylender in late Nineteenth-Century Bihar: Some Colonial Inputs (1983)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1983). State, Peasant and Moneylender in late Nineteenth-Century Bihar: Some Colonial Inputs. In P. Robb (Ed.), Rural India. Land, Power and Society under British Rule (106-148). Curzon Press

Land and Society. The British “Transformation” in India (1983)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1983). Land and Society. The British “Transformation” in India. In P. Robb (Ed.), Rural India. Land, Power and Society under British Rule (1-22). Curzon Press

The Bureaucrat as Reformer: Two Indian Civil Servants and the Constitution of 1919 (1979)
Book Chapter
Robb, P. (1979). The Bureaucrat as Reformer: Two Indian Civil Servants and the Constitution of 1919. In P. Robb, & D. Taylor (Eds.), Rule, Protest, Identity. Aspects of Modern South Asia (49-82). Curzon Press