Ancient Rights And Future Comfort

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113679932X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Rights and Future Comfort written by Peter Robb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of government and in the colonial ability to interfere in India, but that they did so alongside a continuing weakness of understanding and in effective local control. In particular, the book considers the importance of notions of historical rights and economic progress to the false categorisations made of agrarian structure. It shows that the Tenancy Act helped to widen social disparities in rural Bihar, and to create political interests on the land.

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136799257
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Rights and Future Comfort written by Peter Robb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of government and in the colonial ability to interfere in India, but that they did so alongside a continuing weakness of understanding and in effective local control. In particular, the book considers the importance of notions of historical rights and economic progress to the false categorisations made of agrarian structure. It shows that the Tenancy Act helped to widen social disparities in rural Bihar, and to create political interests on the land.

Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716885
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India written by B. B. Chaudhuri and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803724
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Trusting Leviathan written by Martin Daunton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Martin Daunton's major work of original synthesis explores the politics of taxation in the "long" nineteenth century. In 1799, income tax stood at 20% of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, it was 10%. This equitable exercise in fiscal containment lent the government a high level of legitimacy, allowing it to fund war and welfare in the twentieth century. Combining new research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this book examines the complex financial relationship between the State and its citizens.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136102426
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Institutions and Ideologies written by David Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000408116
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Agrarian Development in Colonial India written by Peter Robb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state. The book discusses British theories and policies of ‘improvement’, comparing them with Bihar’s agricultural practice and socio-economic conditions to draw conclusions about rural impoverishment. Following on from his earlier book, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort on the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, the author also presents case studies on famines, debts, canal and village irrigation, flood-protection and the cultivation and production of indigo, opium and sugar. He analyses extensive archival material to reflect on property law, scientific interventions, cropping patterns, trade and intermediaries. He examines the economic role of governments, Eurocentric development theories and the complex impact of development policy on agriculture and society in Bihar. The book will be of interest to academics and students of colonial history, modern Indian history, agrarian studies, economic history, sociology, and development studies. It will also be useful to development practitioners and researchers working on the history of agrarian conditions and public policy.

Author : Susan Trosky
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780787626778
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Susan Trosky and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Arthur Golden Jewel Taslima Nasrin Quentin Tarantino

Author : I. Iqbal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289819
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Bengal Delta written by I. Iqbal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.

Author : Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743272862
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Home Comforts written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Comforts is something new. For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping.

Author : Sumi Krishna
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Livelihood Rights written by Sumi Krishna and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book looks at women's natural resource-based livelihoods in the wider context of development viewed through the lens of citizenship rights. Unravelling the patriarchal social fabric and policy structures in India, it argues that the concept of citizenship needs to be extended to include recognition of ways of life and livelihood, so that women take their legitimate space as productive human beings, entitled to dignity as a political right, and not merely to protection and welfare. The editor weaves together a historical perspective on varied dimensions of livelihood, development and citizenship. Drawing upon rich field-based researches in 13 states across India, the authors deal with complex and inter-related themes: the need to recognise women's right to resources and their livelihood and employment strategies; the challenges of democratic governance and of restructuring institutional systems to make them responsive; and the role of women's collective agency in development. Reflecting upon and critically analysing context-specific issues in several less-studied locations, the book shows that there is much to be learnt from empathetic interaction with the collective struggles of poor women, and from action and dialogue on the ground. Further, it suggests that feminist politics has to network strategically with other struggles to counter the resistance of traditional and contemporary patriarchal structures, and to work towards recasting citizenship for a gender-just development that ensures women's livelihood rights. With its fresh perspective and insights, this book would be invaluable for research institutions, NGOs, donor agencies and individual practitioners and students working in the fields of gender and development, natural resource management, and livelihood policy, planning and interventions. Book jacket.