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  • AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN COLONIAL INDIA
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    AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN COLONIAL INDIA
    PETER ROBB
    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’,...

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  • LOCAL AGRARIAN SOCIETIES IN COLONIAL INDIA
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    LOCAL AGRARIAN SOCIETIES IN COLONIAL INDIA
    PETER ROBB / KAORU SUGIHARA / HARUKA YANAGISAWA
    The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history. ...

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  • ANCIENT RIGHTS AND FUTURE COMFORT
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    ANCIENT RIGHTS AND FUTURE COMFORT
    PETER ROBB
    This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of government and in the colonial ability to interfere in India, but that they did so...

    $1,360.00

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  • INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGIES
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    INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGIES
    DAVID ARNOLD / PETER ROBB
    Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field. ...

    $640.00

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  • ON TIME
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    ON TIME
    PETER ROBB
    This book explores the intersection of public and private temporal systems. Examining Calcutta between 1780 and 1830, it reveals how time functioned as both a regulatory mechanism of emerging colonial governance and a deeply personal construct that continued to reflect pre-colonial norms and practices. The author navigates the complex temporal landscape of early colonial Calcut...

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