Land Relations in Colonial India A Study of Imperialist and Cambridge Historiography
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Author: | Dr Dheeraj Kaushik |
ISBN 13: | 9788195401963 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2021 |
Subject: | History/Modern Period |
About the Book
The present book examines the Land Relations in Colonial India during nineteenth century. It is a pioneer research work which is primarily based on the detailed study and interpretation of the Imperialist and Cambridge Historians on this subject. This book gives interesting and vivid information about the Land Relations in Colonial India. Land changes in the colonial period were an all-India phenomenon. India being then a colony, subordinated economy of the British metropolis that developed here.
Land relations were established and consolidated by the British revenue on tenancy policies. The East India Company's conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes, the principal source of governmental revenue, be collected? But taxation was not a thing onto itself, it was inextricably linked with