Contents Preface .\ Vll lntroduction SHIREEN MOOSVI IX Contributors XV 1 Capitalism in History iRFAN HABiB 1 2 The 'Agricultural Revolution in England': Its Cost for the English Working Class and the Colonies UTSA PATNA!K 17 3 Disrobing Colonialism, and Making Sense of it B. SURENDRA RAO 28 4 "Ihe Golden Age of Pariah' in Early Colonial Tamil Nadu: A Critique RAJ SHEKAR BASU 40 5 Colonial Rule and Tribal Agriculture: The Kolhan Government Estate in Chota Nagpur SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA 56 6 The Famine and Mortality Regime under Colonialism ARUN BANDOPADHYAY 72 7 Empire, Opium and ehe Nascent Indian Capitalist Class AMAR FAROOQUI 81 8 Contemporary Globalization: Some lmplications PRABHAT PATNAIK 93 9 Class Structure and lntensified Inequality in lndia , during Globalization VAM~VAKULABHARANAM 10 Growth with Exclusion: The Indian Economy in the Phase of Globalization JAYATI GHOSH 11 Capitalism, Globalization and Crises: The Need for Fundamental Change? SHIREEN MOOSVI Bibliography