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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 October 2009
      01 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511563348
      9780521526548
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563348
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 372 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (53)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (53)
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    This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the British hegemony. He focuses on zamindari rent extraction, techniques of coercion, and the meaning of gift-giving and gift-receiving. He shows how the zamindars kept alive the rituals, patronage, and other traditions of normative Hindu kingship for their subjects in the villages while they extracted revenue from the peasantry and intermediate gentry for the government of the Mughals and then the English East India Company. He argues that the increased commercialization and efforts to maximize land revenues imposed severe strains on the paternalistic and gift-oriented culture of Bengal's huge landlords. This analysis is illustrated with a case study of Bengal's most important and controversial zamindari, the Burdwan raj.

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