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Book Synopsis Agrarian Conditions in Northern India: The United Provinces under British rule, 1860-1900 by : Elizabeth Whitcombe
Download or read book Agrarian Conditions in Northern India: The United Provinces under British rule, 1860-1900 written by Elizabeth Whitcombe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agrarian Conditions in Northern India by : Elizabeth Whitcombe
Download or read book Agrarian Conditions in Northern India written by Elizabeth Whitcombe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agrarian Conditions in the North-West Provinces and Oudh, 1860-1900 by : E. M. Whitcombe
Download or read book Agrarian Conditions in the North-West Provinces and Oudh, 1860-1900 written by E. M. Whitcombe and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1860-1900 was, for the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, one of intense activity on the part of Government, culminating in a range of visible achievements in a wide variety of fields: public works, export trading, a reformed judicial system, a modernized administration - incorporating the principles of enlightened, if despotic, rule approved in the abstract by leading theorists and considered applicable to India. India, however, was no tabula rasa. The Crown administration succeeded, in 1858, to an inheritance of precedent in most fields bequeathed to it by the East India Company. The reformed institutions which resulted from the new Government's drive for modernization were, moreover, superimposed on a country as large as Great Britain and more densely populated than any contemporary European state, with old-established complex social forms, thriving political activity, and an agricultural pattern skilfully adapted to the variations in local conditions. The source of wealth was, almost exclusively, the land. The development of agricultural resources inspired by British enterprise and the need for land revenue implied no radical transformation of local farming techniques, but merely the superimposition of large-scale works on land long farmed in small, highly diversified holdings. The result was distortion in traditional patterns, which Government had not the means to relieve. Its action was ruled essentially by its revenue needs. This meant a rigid demand, calculated on the basis of abstract principles, was distributed among the revenue-paying 'proprietors', many of whom meanwhile had suffered a sudden and sizeable curtailment of income on the abrupt cessation of service with the Company and the Nawab of Oudh. The indirect pressures induced by the revenue demand within local society, as the zamindars sought to increase their exactions or compelled by new commitments, exposed the most vulnerable elements. At the same time, the revenue demand, especially its timing, dictated the expansion of local credit systems - which were also stimulated to greater activity by developments in the trading pattern and the rise of an export market. Cultivators' indebtedness remained pernicious condition, deplored by the administrators but accepted as inevitable. Zamindars' indebtedness, however, posed more complicated problems due to the reform of debt and alienation laws which were fundamentally inconsistent with the requirements of political expediency. The administration itself, from its position as overseer, could do little more than observe the situation. Its upper, European and incorruptible strata was poorly co-ordinated with its subordinate establishments, poorly paid and eminently corruptible, whilst the persistent lack of means made inefficiency inevitable. The costs of innovation were headed charges for administrative establishments; they included also, under a wider term of reference, the distortions which had arisen within society in its physical, economic and political environment.
Book Synopsis Agrarian Development in Colonial India by : Peter Robb
Download or read book Agrarian Development in Colonial India written by Peter Robb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms in the state. The book discusses British theories and policies of ‘improvement’, comparing them with Bihar’s agricultural practice and socio-economic conditions to draw conclusions about rural impoverishment. Following on from his earlier book, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort on the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, the author also presents case studies on famines, debts, canal and village irrigation, flood-protection and the cultivation and production of indigo, opium and sugar. He analyses extensive archival material to reflect on property law, scientific interventions, cropping patterns, trade and intermediaries. He examines the economic role of governments, Eurocentric development theories and the complex impact of development policy on agriculture and society in Bihar. The book will be of interest to academics and students of colonial history, modern Indian history, agrarian studies, economic history, sociology, and development studies. It will also be useful to development practitioners and researchers working on the history of agrarian conditions and public policy.
Book Synopsis The Economy of Modern India by : B. R. Tomlinson
Download or read book The Economy of Modern India written by B. R. Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.
Book Synopsis Canal Irrigation in British India by : Ian Stone
Download or read book Canal Irrigation in British India written by Ian Stone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the local effects of the British Raj's irrigation schemes.
Book Synopsis Revisiting The History of India & Beyond by : Shri Sagar Simlandy
Download or read book Revisiting The History of India & Beyond written by Shri Sagar Simlandy and published by Onlinegatha. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Revisiting History of India & Beyond” have highlighted all the relevant issues of India's history and culture is dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. It began with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India. The history of India is punctuated by constant integration of migrating people with the diverse cultures that surround India. Available evidence suggests that the use of iron, copper and other metals was widely prevalent in the Indian sub-continent at a fairly early period, which is indicative of the progress that this part of the world had made by the end of the fourth millennium BC, India had emerged as a region of highly developed civilization. We hope that this book will be able to satisfy the general reader of History.
Download or read book Labors of Division written by Navyug Gill and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of "the peasant," demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions. Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.
Book Synopsis Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Waters by : Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi
Download or read book Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Waters written by Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a prosperous region, the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin-inhabited by about a tenth of the world's population-is currently one of the poorest. Large-scale socioeconomic development is urgently needed to ensure the sustainability of the region, and the management of water resources is a crucial part of this. Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna
Book Synopsis Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India by : B. B. Chaudhuri
Download or read book Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India written by B. B. Chaudhuri and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Modern India, 1480-1950 by : Claude Markovits
Download or read book A History of Modern India, 1480-1950 written by Claude Markovits and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive chronological analysis of India's vibrant and diverse history.
Book Synopsis Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India by : Amit Ranjan
Download or read book Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India written by Amit Ranjan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India. It analyses the federal structure in India and looks at its effectiveness in addressing the inter-state river water disputes in the country through three cases: the Cauvery, Krishna and Mahadayi Rivers water dispute. It probes into the physical, political, legal and constitutional measures taken by the Union government and the states to deal with the inter-State and Union-State tussles over inter-State river waters. The author studies the debate over centralisation and decentralisation of water resources, as well as the inter-state river water disputes that have aroused feelings of sub-nationalism in many regions of India. Finally, this book also examines socio-political tensions over multipurpose water projects and other supply-side infrastructures, and their efficacy in addressing India’s increasing water problems. This book will interest researchers and students of Environmental Politics, Political Science, Public Policy, Environmental Geography, Indian Politics, South Asian Studies, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, River Management, and Resource politics.
Book Synopsis Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta by : Debjani Bhattacharyya
Download or read book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta written by Debjani Bhattacharyya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world's largest tidal delta.
Book Synopsis Malaria in Colonial South Asia by : Sheila Zurbrigg
Download or read book Malaria in Colonial South Asia written by Sheila Zurbrigg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the role of acute hunger in malaria lethality in colonial South Asia and investigates how this understanding came to be lost in modern medical, epidemic, and historiographic thought. Using the case studies of colonial Punjab, Sri Lanka, and Bengal, it traces the loss of fundamental concepts and language of hunger in the inter-war period with the reductive application of the new specialisms of nutritional science and immunology, and a parallel loss of the distinction between infection (transmission) and morbid disease. The study locates the final demise of the ‘Human Factor’ (hunger) in malaria history within pre- and early post-WW2 international health institutions – the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation and the nascent WHO’s Expert Committee on Malaria. It examines the implications of this epistemic shift for interpreting South Asian health history, and reclaims a broader understanding of common endemic infection (endemiology) as a prime driver, in the context of subsistence precarity, of epidemic mortality history and demographic change. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of public health, social medicine and social epidemiology, imperial history, epidemic and demographic history, history of medicine, medical sociology, and sociology.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century by : Andrew Porter
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century written by Andrew Porter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power. The volume is divided into two parts. The first contains thematic chapters, some focusing on Britain, others on areas at the imperial periphery, exploring those fundamental dynamics of British expansion whcih made imperial influence and rule possible. They also examine the economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks whcih gave shape to Britain's overseas empire. Part 2 is devoted to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white settler and tropical colonies. Chapters examine how British interests and imperial rule shaped individual regions' nineteenth-century political and socio-economic history. Themes dealt with include the economics of empire, imperial institutions, defence, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science and exploration. Attention is given not only to the formal empire, from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also to China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British `informal empire'.
Book Synopsis Water: Economics, Management and Demand by : T. Franks
Download or read book Water: Economics, Management and Demand written by T. Franks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity, and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water, and will be used by planners, designers and policy makers internationally.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography by : Robin Winks
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography written by Robin Winks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.
