Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India

ISBN-13: 9781138963504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 410 str.

Peter Robb

Opis

This text analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy.

Recenzje

'Robb deserves congratulations for his ability to imbue the reader with a sense of the purpose and results of the Bengal Tenacy Act that is not overwhelmed by specifics and obscurities. This book deserves a welcomed place alongside the earlier classic studies of agrarian and revenue law in colonial India.' - Christopher V. Hill, South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Property, classes and the state; Chapter 2 Official will and administrative capacity; Chapter 3 A necessary reform; Chapter 4 The great rent law debate; Chapter 5 Custom and the law; Chapter 6 The magic of property; Chapter 7 The politics of land; Chapter 8 Keeping the record; Chapter 9 Colonial rule and agrarian structure; Chapter 10 Rents and rights; Chapter 11 Peasants, property and nation;

O autorze

P.G. Robb School of Oriental and African Studies, London