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This book is a comprehensive analysis of the history of farming in Nepal and the political economy of agrarian transition across the country’s diverse agro-ecological and socio-cultural domains. Focusing largely on the last five centuries, it charts the evolution of diverse economic and agro-ecological systems across time and space. This includes the unique agrarian formation associated with Nepal’s Adivasi communities, as well as sedentary owner-cultivation, feudalism and capitalism. It traces the complex relations of subjugation between these different systems over time, while also offering insights into how this has mediated changes in cropping patterns, market engagement and technological change. The book uses these historical insights to offer a deeper insight into many of Nepal’s contemporary rural development challenges.

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Fraser Sugden is an agrarian geographer at the University of Birmingham. He has conducted extensive research on historical agrarian transition and the peasantry, focusing on shifting class relations in the context of economic, ecological, and cultural change. Other interests include labour migration, land reform, irrigation, and action research with farmers around collective land management. Suresh Dhakal is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He holds a PhD in Political Anthropology, an M.Phil. in Human Ecology, and Master's degrees in Development Anthropology and Ecology and Subsistence. Janak Rai is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. His research focuses on indigeneity, land, social history of malaria, inclusion, federalism, and local government.

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