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Author : John R. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 052152654X
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Author : Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801882699
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 : Robert Travers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009123389
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
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351997348
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 : Peter Robb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136799327
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
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230603448
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 : V. Damodaran,A. Winterbottom,A. Lester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137427274
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 : Rishad Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009253703
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 : Ananda Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000023374
Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report, 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the Dacca College by the distinguished Bengali civil servant, F.D. Ascoli. It embodies the text of the Fifth Report on the affairs of the East India Company by the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed with a view to form the charter of 1813, and also careful and detailed summary of the discussions that led up to Lord Cornwallis's Permanent Revenue Settlement of Bengal (including Behar). The condensed arguments of Mr. James Grant, Sir John Shore and Lord Cornwallis on the subject of the Permanent Settlement enable us to see the objectives desired for in the Permanent Revenue Settlement. The book also affords valuable glimpses on the methods adopted for carrying out the settlement and working it successfully in the early days when the zamindars themselves did not look upon it as a boon, and the sale of estates for arrears were frequent. Ascoli's excellent and dispassionate account of the Company’s difficulties and the unsuccessful remedies that were from time to time applied to meet them, disposes of pet theories that are sometimes advanced with regard to the Permanent Settlement. Mr. Ascoli's masterly analysis and partial text of the Fifth Report from the Select Committee, 1812, will be of material assistance to students of revenue history in Bengal and of Colonial India generally. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author : André Wink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417747
A major reinterpretation of the rise of the Indo-Islamic world rooted in world history and geography.
Author : Subhajyoti Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136848582
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.
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198030713
This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on the goddesses Kali and Uma, McDermott examines lyrical poems written by devotees from Ramprasad Sen (ca. 1718-1775) to Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976).
Author : Joshua Ehrlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009367998
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies of orientalism, colonial knowledge, and information with a new approach: the history of ideas of knowledge. He recovers a world of debate among the Company's officials and interlocutors, Indian and European, on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the Company – just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today's politics.
Author : Gagan Sood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107121270
Gagan D. S. Sood recaptures a vanished and forgotten world that spanned India and the Islamic heartlands in the eighteenth century.
Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geschichte
ISBN : 8131716880