Peasant Studies Quotes

“There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.”
― invoking the words of economic historian R. H. Tawney, James C. Scott

“There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.”
― James C. Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia