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

Author: Dirk H.A. Kolff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 9004188029

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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.

Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics
Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics

Author: Tripurdaman Singh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1108603998

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Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics takes at its focus the historically significant interconnections between local polities and imperial formations in South Asia. Using the relationship between the Bhadauria Rajputs and the Mughal, Maratha and British Empires as a prism to evaluate the constitution of sovereignty and the process of state formation, it demonstrates the enduring relevance of symbolism and ritual, the persistence of pre-colonial political forms and ideologies and the continuing importance of local power networks in moulding imperial projects. Employing theories of state formation borrowed from anthropology, Singh emphasizes the need to conceptually separate political authority from symbolic sovereignty and examine the local context of imperial politics. This work provides a compelling re-orientation of the way we understand the nature of imperial states, the experience of sovereignty and the processes of political change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Jats
The Jats

Author: Girish Chandra Dwivedi

Publisher: Low Price Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9788188629084

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Highlights The Dynamic Role Of The Jats During The Later Period Of The Mughal Empire. The Author Has Assembled Some Of The Rarest Evidence Available And Turned Them Into A Readable And Historic Analysis.

Rise of the Jat Power
Rise of the Jat Power

Author: Raj Pal Singh

Publisher: New Delhi : Harman Publishing House

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Chiefly political history of Bharatpur (Princely State), 1722- 1768.

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars

Author: C. A. Bayly

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988-05-19

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780521310543

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Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in hard covers, Dr Bayly's authoritative study traces the evolution of North Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of mature Victorian empire following the 'mutiny' of 1857. The first section of the book looks at the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the 'Time of Troubles' in the eighteenth century. The second section shows how the incoming British, were themselves constrained to build their new empire on this resilient network of towns, rural bazaars and merchant communities; and how in turn colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. The third section focuses on the social history of the towns under early colonial rule and includes an analysis of the culture and business methods of the Indian merchant family. It is based in part on the private records and histories of the business people themselves.