Rule by Records
Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2579228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Osella (0000-0001-7054-9275), Richard Saumarez Smith |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3034563 |
| OpenAlex | W1980789736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature of agrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. The result challenges established concepts and procedures in both history and sociology
Archaeology · Genealogy · Geography · Land registration · Land tenure · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |