A01=Peter Robb
Agrarian Rights
Agrarian Structure
Author_Peter Robb
Bengal Government
Bengal Tenancy Act
British Indian Association
Category=GTM
Category=KCZ
Category=NHF
Category=NHTQ
Category=NHTR
Central Government
colonial agrarian policy
Eighteenth Century Bengal
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Great Famine
Indian Custom
Indigo Planters
land tenure systems
legal reforms India
nineteenth-century Bihar land law
North Bihar
North Western Provinces
peasant-state relations
Permanent Settlement
property rights history
Regulation VIII
Rent Enhancement
Rent Law
Revenue Demand
rural social stratification
Secretary Of State
Sir Ashley Eden
Tenancy Act
Tenancy Bill
Tenancy Debate
Tenancy Legislation
Violate
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706259
- Weight: 920g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
P.G. Robb School of Oriental and African Studies, London
