John R. Mclane

Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526548
• ISBN-10: 052152654X
• Artikelnr.: 21602950

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Select glossary; Map of southwest Bengal; Part I. Bengal: 1. Introduction; 2. Nazims of Bengal and the large zamindars; 3. Collecting rents and revenues; 4. Coercion; 5. Political gifts and patronage; Part II. Burdwan: 6. Meghal Burdwan and the rise of the Burdwan raj; 7. Burdwan's expansion; 8. The Maratha invasions, 1742
1751; 9. Zamindars and the transition to Company rule; 10. The famine of 1770; 11. Revenue farming, 1771
1777; 12. Zamindari family politics; the Burdwan raj, 1770
1775; 13. The politics of Burdwan family debt and marriages, 1775
1778; 14. Testing the limits, 1778
1790; 15. Burdwan under the decennial and permanent settlements; 16. Patnis and the elusive quest for independence and security; 17. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.