Author: Sulekh Chandra Gupta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781013320842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Anand A. Yang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520329600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author: Neeladri Bhattacharya
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438477414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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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.

Author: Sulekh Chandra Gupta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781013315329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sulekh Chandra Gupta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: B. R. Tomlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021189
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.

Author: Peter Robb
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000408116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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: Amit Kumar Gupta
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131738668X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising of peasants, artisans and discontented aristocrats against the British. Tracing the rationale and consequences of this conflict, the monograph highlights how newly introduced political, economic and agrarian policies as part of industrial Britain’s colonial policy wreaked havoc, resulting in high land revenue assessment and its harsh mode of collection, rural indebtedness, steady immiseration of peasants, widespread land alienation, destitution and suicide. Using rare archival sources, this book will be an important intervention in the study of nineteenth-century India, and will deeply interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history and politics.

Author: Richard Saumarez Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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The First Civil Act Of The British Government In India Was To Effect A Settlement Of Land Revenue-Throughs Which The Villagers Were First Drawn Into The Rule Of Law And These Updated Records Acted Was An Interface Between The Rules And The Ruled In The Rulers Idioms. The Study Attempts To Analyse This Idiom By Analysing The Records In Ludhiana District Of Punjab Where The First Such Settlement Of Villages Was Effected.

Author: Shubhra Chakrabarti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788193926970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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There is no area of Indian agrarian history that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. This volume considers his work on the peasantry and the political economy of agriculture in eastern India, including the process of 'depeasantization' and the forcible induction of tribes and forest dwellers into settled agriculture.