1st Edition

Social Framework of Agriculture India, Middle East, England

By Harold H. Mann, Daniel Thorner Copyright 1967

    First Published in 1968. Dr. Harold H. Mann was during his lifetime an acknowledged authority on applied science and agriculture in England, the Middle East and India, but it is less widely known that he was equally distinguished by his work in the social sciences. He not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India, but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India. There he broke new ground in his remarkable first-hand research on agricultural labour, village economics, depressed or “Untouchable” classes in town and country, and human and industrial relations in India’s first steel town, Jamshedpur. This book reproduces thirty-five of Dr. Mann’s papers—in whole, in part, or in summary.

    Preface, Science and Agriculture: The Contribution of Harold H. Mann, Social and Economic Studies of Dr. Mann, PART I: APPROACH AND OUTLOOK, 1. The Philosophy of a Man of Science, 2. The Social Study of a People, 3. How to Conduct an Economic Survey, 4. The Investigation of Economic Conditions in Underdeveloped Countries, PART II: VILLAGE STUDIES IN INDIA AND ENGLAND, 5. Life in an Agricultural Village in England, 6. Note on the Diet of Tea Garden Coolies in Upper Assam and its Nutritive Value, 7. The ‘Mahars' of a Deccan Village (Saswad), 8. The Economics of a Deccan Village, 9. The Effects of Rise of Prices on Rural Prosperity, 10. India in the Sixteenth Century, 11. A Deccan Village under the Peshwas, 12. Foreword to Resurvey of a Deccan Village, PART III: TOWN STUDIES IN INDIA, 13. Calcutta Drink Shops (1903-04), 14. The Untouchable Classes of an Indian City (Poona), 15. The Housing of the Untouchable Classes in an Indian City (Poona), 16. The Supply of Milk to Indian Cities, 17. The Provision of Milch Cattle Stables in Bombay, PART IV: THE SOCIAL SETTING OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA, 18. The Lines of Development of Indian Agriculture, 19. Royal Commission on Agriculture in India: Dr. Mann’s Written Evidence (1927), 20. The Agriculture of India, 21. Note on the Plan of Economic Development for India, 22. Village Betterment in the New India and Pakistan, 23. The General Report of the All India Rural Credit Survey, 24. The Significance of Land Transfers, 25. The Economic Results and Possibilities of Irrigation, 26. The Central Mechanized Farm at Suratgarh Report 1956-58, PART V: THE USSR AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 27. The Collective Farm System in Russia, 28. Agricultural Improvement in Turkey, 29. The New Agricultural Land Law in Turkey, 30. Wheat in the Middle East, 31. Millets in the Middle East, Appendix: Foodgrains in the Middle East and India (Outline of Proposed Book), PART VI: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND METHOD, 32. Rab: A Unique System of Cultivating Rice in Western India, 33. The Early History of the Tea Industry in North-east India, 34. The Indian Tea Industry in its Scientific Aspects, 35. The Woburn Experimental Station (1876-1956), Bibliography of the Works of Harold Mann, Index

    Biography

    Harold H. Mann. Edited by Daniel Thorner