Fluvial Landscape and the State
Property and the Gangetic Diaras in Colonial India, 1790s-1890s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12304752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nitin Sinha (0000-0001-8094-4084, Lecturer in Modern History Department of History University of York Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-237 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-3407 • E-ISSN: 1752-7023 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/096734014x13941952680990 |
| OpenAlex | W2314107507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Looking at the interplay of law and revenue as a means of understanding colonial practices and policies towards diaras, this paper addresses a relatively neglected field in the agrarian-ecological history of South Asia. The constant formation and disappearance of lands due to river shifts raised several issues. Among the most important from the viewpoint of the colonial state were secure revenue extraction and the fixation of proprietorial rights. Using a number of case-studies, the paper argues that, although maximisation of revenue did not necessarily mean the dilution of the idea of the Permanent Settlement, the state throughout the nineteenth century failed to arrive at a standardised set of practices because of its own structural (bureaucratic) incoherency, ideological underpinnings and the ecological settings
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Geography · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Property rights · Revenue · State (computer science · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |