Dry Grain Farming Families : Hausalund (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared (Paperback)

List of tables; List of figures; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introductory chapter; 1. Background material: the two regions and the eight localities; 2. A dry grain Agrarian mode; 3. The village farmland; 4. The farming household: (1) joint households; 5. The farming household: (2) miscellaneous aspects; 6. The essence of inequality: land ownership; 7. The diversity of economic activity; 8. Intensification; 9. Upward and downward mobility; 10. Migration; 11. Rural/urban relationships; 12. The withdrawal from the countryside; 13. Agrestic servitude; 14. The inevitable dissolution of the large estates; 15. How did the weakest elements formerly survive in the anekal villages?; 16. The lack of an Agrarian hierarchy in pre-colonial west Africa; 17. A dry grain mode: some conclusions; List of references; Index.