A concise encyclopaedia of North Indian peasant life

Editors Preface to the Revised Edition Editors Preface to the First Edition Editors Introduction to the Revised Edition Title Page of Materials (1879) William Crookes Preface to Materials List of Illustrations Notes on Illustrations Illustrations Part I: Being the Text of William Crookes Materials for a Rural and Agricultural Glossary of the North Western Provinces and Oudh: IX: Labour Advances, Wages and Perquisities X: Land Tenures XI: The Native House XII: Food XIII Ceremonies of Rural Life XIV Trade and Moneylending XV: Weights and Measures Appendices Bibliography Index. Part II: Materials on Peasant Production from J.R. Reids Azamgarh Settlement Report: System of Agriculture Methods of Irrigation Gharra Irrigation The Kinds of Produce and Methods of Raising Them Early and Broadcaste Rice Transplanted Rice The Hot Weather Marsh Rice (Boro) Harjins Kharif Harjins: Rabi Harjins: The Manufacture of Sugar From the Cane Indigo Poppy The Preparation of Crude Opium Poppy Oil Produce Included under Vegetables Tobacco Betel Leaf Total Produe The Amout of Food Grains The Amount of Fodder The Value of the Produce The Value of Produce per Acre Soil Fertility Comparative Prices of Produce the Dealer in Produce or Mahajan Village Servants Part III: Selections from the Bhojpuri Dialect: Conversation Fables Bhojpuri Songs Part IV: Rustic Speech and a Rural Glossary from Azamgarh: Notes on the Dialect Current in Azamgarh Note [on the Azamgarh Glossary] Azamgarh Glossary.