Grass in Their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India Under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793-1830

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18502-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1116 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company induced the Bengal civil service to formulate for itself a corporate identity that, because of its distant and self-centered character, prevented it to acquire an executive hold on most levels of the Indian administration. The core of the book consists of superbly-detailed studies of the ways in which, in the Ganges-Jumna doab, villagers, revenue farmers, Indian policemen and revenue officials, bankers and judges struggled to overcome or profit from this feature of the colonial administration.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Indian social and administrative history, colonialism and its ideologies, peasant studies, and Indian legal studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolff, Dirk H A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk H.A. Kolff, Ph.D. (1983) in History, Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of South Asian History, Leiden University. His publications mainly deal with the early modern history of India.