A ‘Tranquil Spectator’
1 The District Official and the Practice of Local Government in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11944374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JAMES LEES (0000-0002-5507-861X, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086530903538145 |
| OpenAlex | W2083023080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
There has been a tendency in the historiography covering the use of armed force in the East India Company's domestic governance to concentrate on the period after the 1810s, when ideas regarding the importance of fostering the colonial government's reputation within Indian society for absolute military rule, tempered by justice, were gaining prominence through the work of Sir John Malcolm and the adherents of the ‘Empire of Opinion’ school. However, the governmental practice of the previous generation of the Company's district administrators, operating before the establishment of a military hegemony, a professional bureaucracy or an accumulated body of Anglo-Indian governmental knowledge, has received comparatively little attention. As this article seeks to demonstrate through the example of the district of Chittagong in Bengal during the late eighteenth century, such a study reveals much about the priorities and limitations of local government in this formative period of British colonial rule
Archaeology · BENGAL · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Corporate governance · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Historiography · Management · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
East Indian fortunes
The Political History of India
The Central Administration of the East India Company, 1773-1834
Pacification in the early British Raj, 1755–85
The Revenue Administration of the East India Company in Chittagong, 1761-1785
The Domination of Strangers
The East India Company and Army Reform, 1783-1798
A Thousand Countries To Go To
The Invention of the 'Jummas
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |