Land And Local Kingship In Eighteenth Century Bengal

Author : John R. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526548
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal written by John R. McLane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.

Author : Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882692
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Eighteenth Century written by Felicity Nussbaum and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore both literal and metaphorical crossings of the globe, addressing the cultural significance of maps, paintings, travel writing, tourist manuals, cultural identities, island gardens, and other topics in order to lend insight to our perception of global culture during the long 18th century.

Author : V. Damodaran
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137427272
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company and the Natural World written by V. Damodaran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.

Author : Robert Travers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009123386
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of Complaints written by Robert Travers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.

Author : J. Albert Rorabacher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351997343
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property, Land, Revenue, and Policy written by J. Albert Rorabacher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first century-and-a-half of its nearly 275 year existence, the English East India Company remained ostensibly a mercantile enterprise, satisfied to simply trade, competing with other European traders. In the middle of the eighteenth century, as a response to French expansion in India, the East India Company redefined itself, becoming an active participant in India’s ‘game of thrones’. Through the use of its military might, only tentatively supported by the English Crown and Parliament, the Company dominated trade, became a king-maker, and ultimately a colonial administrator over much of the Indian Subcontinent. The Company had become a state in the guise of a merchant. The Company consolidated its position in Bengal, then began to exert its power by toppling local potentates and absorbing one princely state after another. Confronted with a land system that was built on custom and tradition, and not law, with no tradition of land ownership, the British were forced to formulate a new land tenure and revenue system for India, one based on British principles of property. Permanent Settlement was the new government’s first attempt at creating a new revenue system. Through its creation, for the first time, private property rights were conferred on the formerly non-landowning zamindars. Which, as this authoritative volume notes in turn, created a land market, destabilizing the political and social structure of India irretrievably.

Author : Bernardo A. Michael
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285327
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statemaking and Territory in South Asia written by Bernardo A. Michael and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.

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

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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 : B. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603440
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship and Colonialism in India’s Deccan 1850–1948 written by B. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejecting simplified notions of 'civilizational clashes', this book argues for a new perspective on Hindu, Muslim, and colonial power relations in India. Using archival sources from London, Delhi, and Hyderabad, the book makes use of interviews, private family records and princely-colonial records uncovered outside of the archival repositories.

Author : Rishad Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009253700
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hajj across Empires written by Rishad Choudhury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

Author : Subhajyoti Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136848584
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations on the Bengal Frontier written by Subhajyoti Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.