{"product_id":"land-and-local-kingship-in-eighteenth-century-bengal-paperback-9780521526548","title":"Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal (Paperback) 9780521526548","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn R. McLane (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521526548, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 25 July 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface and acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Select glossary\u003cbr\u003e Map of southwest Bengal\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Bengal: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nazims of Bengal and the large zamindars\u003cbr\u003e 3. Collecting rents and revenues\u003cbr\u003e 4. Coercion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political gifts and patronage\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Burdwan: 6. Meghal Burdwan and the rise of the Burdwan raj\u003cbr\u003e 7. Burdwan's expansion\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Maratha invasions, 1742–1751\u003cbr\u003e 9. Zamindars and the transition to Company rule\u003cbr\u003e 10. The famine of 1770\u003cbr\u003e 11. Revenue farming, 1771–1777\u003cbr\u003e 12. Zamindari family politics\u003cbr\u003e the Burdwan raj, 1770–1775\u003cbr\u003e 13. The politics of Burdwan family debt and marriages, 1775–1778\u003cbr\u003e 14. Testing the limits, 1778–1790\u003cbr\u003e 15. Burdwan under the decennial and permanent settlements\u003cbr\u003e 16. Patnis and the elusive quest for independence and security\u003cbr\u003e 17. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019778806040,"sku":"9780521526548","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521526548i_29577481-fea1-4c81-911c-e68f3df52246.jpg?v=1691368915","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-and-local-kingship-in-eighteenth-century-bengal-paperback-9780521526548","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}