The Limited Raj Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920.
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE: The Setting of Control
- 1. Metaphors of Control: The View from Sonepur Mela and Meet
- 2. The Agrarian Landscape of Control
- PART II. The Limited Raj System
- 3. The Initial Encounter: The British Establishment of Connections, 1765-1793
- 4. Government and Its Allies: The System of Control and Collaboration
- 5. The Limited Raj: The British Development of Local Control Institutions
- PART III. Estate Control and Management Systems
- 6. Between Raja and Raiyat: The Structures of Control in the Great Estate of Hathwa
- 7. The Dynamics of Hathwa Control: Two Case Studies
- 8. Zamindars and Maliks: Structures and Strategies of Control
- PART IV. Peasant Options in a Colonial Society
- 9. Desertion and Migration as Peasant Options
- 10. Resistance, Violence, and Collective Action as Peasant Options
- Conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index