Sentence examples for state peasants from inspiring English sources

These were a little less than half the rural population: in 1858 there were 19 million state peasants and 22.5 million private serfs.

Thus Count Mikhail Speransky codified law, and Count Pavel Kiselev changed and improved the lot of the state peasants; but even limited reforms became impossible after 1848.

Although Siberia was used as a place of exile for criminals and political prisoners, Russian settlement (by state peasants and runaway serfs) remained insignificant until the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1891 1905), after which large-scale in-migration occurred.

The traditional military democracies of the Cossack hosts on the Dnieper, Don, Ural, Kuban, and Volga rivers lost their autonomy and special privileges; the wealthier officers became Russian service nobles, receiving the right to own and settle serfs on their own lands, while the rank-and-file Cossacks sank to the level of state peasants with special military obligations.

"Nitish Kumar, a quiet strategist, split the middle caste vote into two, and consolidated the most backward caste in his favor," said Ashwani Kumar, a political scientist at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and the author of the book "Community Warriors: State, Peasants, and Caste Armies in Bihar".

Monastery votchinas greatly expanded during the 17th century, but were abolished in 1764, when all of the Kola Peninsula peasants became state peasants.

The content related to the development of commune and brigade industries in the "May 7th Instruction" states, "Peasants of communes should mainly work on agriculture (including forestry, animal husbandry, side-line production, and fishery) but should also learn some knowledge about military, politics, and culture.

This book also deals with the relations between the colonial state, rich peasants, zamindars and peasants under the ryotwary and zamindary settlements, which were introduced at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

He asserted that taxes and the "subsidy games" had turned Iowa into a "state of peasants totally dependent on your largesse".

The final part of the body, the feet, is constituted by everyone who does not have a state function: peasants, tradesmen, husbandsmen etc.

His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province.