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Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India: 13 (London Studies on South Asia) - Softcover

Book 2 of 10: London Studies on South Asia

Robb, Peter

 
9781138963504: Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India: 13 (London Studies on South Asia)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113896350X ISBN 13: 9781138963504
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113896350X
ISBN 13 
9781138963504
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
410