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Author: Chitta Panda Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Chitta Panda examines the interaction between the landed aristocracy in nineteenth-century Bengal and colonial rule. With reference to Midnapore district the book questions the standard assumption that, as collaborators, Zamindars prospered under colonial rule, and argues that they passed through a prolonged crisis in the period 1870-1920, with a gradual decline in their social power.
Author: Chitta Panda Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Chitta Panda examines the interaction between the landed aristocracy in nineteenth-century Bengal and colonial rule. With reference to Midnapore district the book questions the standard assumption that, as collaborators, Zamindars prospered under colonial rule, and argues that they passed through a prolonged crisis in the period 1870-1920, with a gradual decline in their social power.
Author: John R. McLane Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521410748 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 371
Book Description
This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the British hegemony. He focuses on zamindari rent extraction, techniques of coercion, and the meaning of gift-giving and gift-receiving. He shows how the zamindars kept alive the rituals, patronage, and other traditions of normative Hindu kingship for their subjects in the villages while they extracted revenue from the peasantry and intermediate gentry for the government of the Mughals and then the English East India Company. He argues that the increased commercialization and efforts to maximize land revenues imposed severe strains on the paternalistic and gift-oriented culture of Bengal's huge landlords. This analysis is illustrated with a case study of Bengal's most important and controversial zamindari, the Burdwan raj.
Author: Subhajyoti Ray Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136848517 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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An analysis of the socio-economic changes brought about by colonial rule in a frontier area of Bengal, Jalpaiguri. Challenging long established debates focused around the powers of dominant groups over a settled peasantry, this book broadens our perspective on the 18th century, promoting a deeper understanding of the change-over from the pre-colonial to the colonial era.
Author: Willem van Schendel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108620337 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 459
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Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.
Author: Chitta Panda
Author: Chitta Panda
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