Author: Sir James Robert Dunlop SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Customary Law of the Main Tribes of the Siálkot District
Author: Sir James Robert Dunlop SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Great Agrarian Conquest
Author: Neeladri BhattacharyaPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438477392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies. This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe—with its many forms of livelihood—were reshaped to create a new agrarian world of settled farming. While focusing on Punjab, India, this pathbreaking analysis offers a broad argument about the workings of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh. Such radical change, Neeladri Bhattacharya shows, is as much conceptual as material. Agrarian colonization was a process of creating spaces that conformed to the demands of colonial rule. It entailed establishing a regime of categories—tenancies, tenures, properties, habitations—and a framework of laws that made the change possible. Agrarian colonization was in this sense a deep conquest. Colonialism, the book suggests, has the power to revisualize and reorder social relations and bonds of community. It alters the world radically, even when it seeks to preserve elements of the old. The changes it brings about are simultaneously cultural, discursive, legal, linguistic, spatial, social, and economic. Moving from intent to action, concepts to practices, legal enactments to court battles, official discourses to folklore, this book explores the conflicted and dialogic nature of a transformative process. By analyzing this great conquest, and the often silent ways in which it unfolds, the book asks every historian to rethink the practice of writing agrarian history and reflect on the larger issues of doing history. “The Great Agrarian Conquest is a subtle and substantial work of scholarship. If there is one book Indians need to read to understand how colonialism actually worked (or did not work), this is it.” — Ramachandra Guha, in The Wire, in praise of the Indian edition
Imperial Gazetteer of India
Author: Imperial Gazetteer of India ...
Author: James Sutherland CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Society of Antiquaries of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Catalogue. [With] Accessions
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Author: India office librProceedings of the Royal Society
Author: Tribal Law in the Punjab
Author: Sir Charles Arthur RoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description