Ancient Rights and Future Comfort : Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India
by
Peter Robb
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0700706259
ISBN-13
9780700706259
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 1997
Print length
410 Pages
Weight
613 grams
Ksh 27,900.00
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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.
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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