Peasantry

The goal was to modernize the relationship of dependence between the landowners and peasantry, relieve some of the tax burden on the peasantry, and increase state revenues.

How does the process instead lead to, as your article puts it, the peasantry engaging “in self-exploitation not for household consumption, but for the LSCF’s accumulation”?

There was a large peasantry which evolved out of the plantation system.

Meanwhile, during discussions on the Governor’s address, Congress MLA Sandeep Jakhar emphasized the need for a roadmap to address the crisis facing the peasantry and called for a special session to discuss the agriculture policy.

I don’t think that would be in the larger interest of the country’s peasantry, as repealing would mean bringing back controls, licence raj and the resultant rent-seeking.

A collapse in raw material prices caused intense pressure on Rwanda’s peasantry, who made up 85 percent of the population.

Because of its strong links with the countryside its ideas quickly diffuse among the peasantry.

Today, in my opinion, the Ethiopian peasantry is probably one of the best-growing and the best-advanced parts of the society, because they are able to till their land and market their grains properly.

Under this policy, practically all public industry was privatized, salaries were pulverized, most collective labour contracts were mutilated or eliminated, and the poor peasantry was left to its own devices.

Critics may call Chhotu Ram a caste leader, but he also sought to articulate the suffering of the peasantry.

In the absence of a free peasantry, the state was obliged to rely on a mercenary army to fight its wars.

Agrarianism was the dominant political philosophy in the countryside, as the peasantry organized a movement independent of any existing party.

Ali Këlcyra and Midhat Frashëri formed the Western-oriented Balli Kombëtar (National Front). citation Balli Kombetar was a movement that recruited supporters from both the large landowners and peasantry.

Although he had some trouble with the peasantry, the lands and treasures of the church enabled him to propitiate the nobles and for a time to provide for the expenses of the court.

Although relieved of many of the old burdens, controls, and taxes, the peasantry was still highly traditional in its social and economic behavior.

Anti-clerical sentiment became much stronger than ever before, but was now based in certain elements of the middle class and indeed the peasantry as well.

A rebellion in the Scanian peasantry forced him to flee to Zealand in 1180, from where he returned and subdued the Scanians with the help of Valdemar.

As a matter of fact, at this time the Finnish peasantry was outraged by the actions of their elite and almost exclusively supported Gustav's actions against the conspirators.

As central governments grew in power, a return to the citizen and mercenary armies of the classical period also began, as central levies of the peasantry began to be the central recruiting tool.

As central governments grew in power, a return to the citizen armies of the classical period also began, as central levies of the peasantry began to be the central recruiting tool.