Land Revenue Administration in Bengal Under Early British Rule: A Case Study of Birbhum District, 1765-1820
Santra, Manas Kumar
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Book ID : 23326
ISBN-10 : 81-85616-24-8 / 8185616248
ISBN-13 : 978-81-85616-24-7 / 9788185616247
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1994
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xi, 316p., Tables, Gloss., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Prologue: The Land and Its People 2. Before 1765: Legacy From Mughal and Nawabi Times 3. Era of Double Government (1765-1772):First Phase of British Control 4. Under Temporary Plan of Hastinos (1772-1780): Failure of Five-Year Farming and Restoration of Zamindari 5. Hastings' Permanent Plan and Ineffective Over-Centralisatiion (1781-1785): Zamindar Insecure and Unholy Mandal-Amla Nexus 6. Macpherson and Decentralisatioin (1785-1786): Towards A Full-Fledged Collectorship 7. Reorganisation Under Cornwallis (1786-1793) Section One: Before the Decennial Settlements Section Two: Passage From The Decennial To the Permanent Settlement 8. The System That Prevailed: Structural Analysis 9. The Cornwallis System in Operation Till 1820 10. Epilogue: Impacat of The Permanent Settlement on The Landed Interests: A Fresh Appraisal
DESCRIPTION
he present work is a critical and comprehensive survey of the land revenue administration in the Birbhum District of Bengal in the early phase of British 'colonial' rule.
Since the East India Company's accession to the Diwani of Bengal in 1765, the Company's main aim was collect as much land revenue as possible from the province. But the alien rulers had no experience of their own. In order to achieve the purpose a series of experiments were made by the early colonizers in the revenue administration of the provenience of Bengal. In effect, various changes took place in the region. In this wider general background, the authors has made an in-depth study of the growth of the British administrative set-up linked to the land revenue system of Birbhum, a Bengal district. The repercussions on agrarian society owing to various changes in the field have also been adequately examined. Besides, the different forms of land-holding and the zamindari administration have been described in detail. This adequate and exclusive study of the subject proper has not come out before.
