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

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ISBN: 9780700706259 | 0700706259
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/20/1997

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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.

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Preface
Sources and abbreviations
Introduction
Property, classes and the state	p. 1
Official will and administrative capacity	p. 36
A necessary reform	p. 76
The great rent law debate	p. 101
Custom and the law	p. 146
The magic of property	p. 180
The politics of land	p. 214
Keeping the record	p. 246
Colonial rule and agrarian structure	p. 278
Rents and rights	p. 313
Peasants, property and nation	p. 342
Index	p. 373
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