Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dharma Kumar (1928-October 19, 2001) was an Indian economic historian, noted for her work on the fiscal history of India. Her Ph.D at Cambridge on the fiscal history of South India was awarded the Ellen MacArthur Prize, and was published as Land and Caste in South India (Cambridge University Press, 1965).She is noted for the position that many of the social structures of agrarian India, particularly the large class of landless labourers, pre-dated the British era. This view opposed the marxist historical view then prevalent in India, that the class of agricultural labourers had been formed as a result of British exploitation in the nineteenth century. }
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- Dharma_Kumar abstract "Dharma Kumar (1928-October 19, 2001) was an Indian economic historian, noted for her work on the fiscal history of India. Her Ph.D at Cambridge on the fiscal history of South India was awarded the Ellen MacArthur Prize, and was published as Land and Caste in South India (Cambridge University Press, 1965).She is noted for the position that many of the social structures of agrarian India, particularly the large class of landless labourers, pre-dated the British era. This view opposed the marxist historical view then prevalent in India, that the class of agricultural labourers had been formed as a result of British exploitation in the nineteenth century".