Land Relations in Colonial India- A Study of Imperialist and Cambridge Historiography

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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 "Ownership" and indeed with the entire structure of land rights. For this region, among others, the company also adopted legal systems that would adjudicate the disputes that inevitably, followed in the wake of its land-rights intervention. The legal and land tenure arrangement chosen also affected credit market to great extent.

About the Author Dr. Dheeraj Kaushik is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Dyal Singh College, Karnal. He holds his Doctoral Degree from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He has distinguished academic career with History (Hons.) at Graduation level. He has more than nine years experience of teaching and research. His areas of specializations are Modern History, Agrarian History, Partition of Punjab and Regional History. He has published more than 22 research articles in national and international journals. He has also contributed chapters in books related to the field of his interest. He has presented more than 35 research papers in national and international conferences and seminars.

Preface This book is based on my doctoral thesis, entitled "Agrarian Relations in Colonial India During the 19th Century: A Study of Imperialist and Cambridge Historiography", submitted to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in 2018. The work is an attempt to evaluate the colonial agrarian policies and their impact on agrarian society of the British India. British agrarian relations established land revenue and tenancy policies. British agrarian policies were modified basically into change and sometimes conflicting proportions of greed for more revenue and desire to encourage certain types of agricultural production for export, while the need to win or retain political allies, administrative convenience and changing ideological as summation also played a certain role of time.

After the advent of British rule, the principle of a contract assessment in cash was maintained. The revenue was assessed in this form either on the individual fields, as in south, or on the large estate or villages, as in Northern India. At the same time the old system was revived by which the contract was fixed for a series of year instead of by being liable to capricious alteration.

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