Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368161210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Selections from Revenue Records, North-West Provinces
Author: Selections from Revenue Records North-West Provinces
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382819694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Selections from Revenue Records, North-West Provinces: A. D. 1822-1833
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368161210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Selections from the Records of the Government, North West Provinces. Mr. Thomason's Despatches. [A selection of the minutes and despatches of James Thomason, as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwestern Provinces, 1844-1853.]
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Author: Assembling the Local
Author: Upal ChakrabartiPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225273X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understood as an attempt to return the territory's native ruler to power, investigations following the rebellion's suppression traced the cause back to the introduction of a model of revenue governance unsuited to local conditions. Elsewhere in British India, throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, interregional debates over revenue settlement models and property disputes in villages revealed an array of practices of governance that negotiated with the problem of their applicability to local conditions. And at the same time in Britain, the dominant Ricardian conception of political economy was being challenged by thinkers like Richard Jones and William Whewell, who sought to make political economy an inductive science, capable of analyzing the real world. Through analyses of these three interrelated moments in British imperial history, Upal Chakrabarti's Assembling the Local engages with articulations of the "local" on multiple theoretical and empirical fronts, weaving them into a complex reflection on the problem of difference and a critical commentary on connections between political economy, agrarian property, and governance. Chakrabarti argues that the "local" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India.
Land and Law in Mughal India
Author: Nandini ChatterjeePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access.
Calcutta Review
Author: The Calcutta Review
Author: Grass in their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793-1830
Author: Dirk H.A. KolffPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004188029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company induced the Bengal civil service to formulate for itself a corporate identity that, because of its distant and self-centered character, prevented it to acquire an executive hold on most levels of the Indian administration. The core of the book consists of superbly-detailed studies of the ways in which, in the Ganges-Jumna doab, villagers, revenue farmers, Indian policemen and revenue officials, bankers and judges struggled to overcome or profit from this feature of the colonial administration.
The Formation of the Colonial State in India
Author: Hayden J. BellenoitPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134494297
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule. This book offers a new way of interpreting the colonial state’s origins in north India. It examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural histories of various Hindu scribal communities fit within broader changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The author argues that British power after the late eighteenth century came as much through bureaucratic mastery, paper and taxes as it did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires, and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj by 1900. Offering a detailed account of how agrarian wealth provided the bedrock of the colonial state’s later patterns of administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution to studies in South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism.