Clash of resource use regimes in Colonial Assam
A nineteenth-century puzzle revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2158102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Baruah (0000-0002-7035-984X, Bard College, corresponding author), Sanjib Baruah |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 109-124 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150108438777 |
| OpenAlex | W2083056910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 4 |
In the nineteenth-century the British colonial government in Assam tried to change the land titles of Assamese peasants from annual leases to decennial leases. But Assamese peasants mostly abandoned their claim to their land after a single harvest. The peasants' behaviour gives a clue to the impact of the colonial land settlement project whose major effect was to eliminate the access of shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers of the Brahmaputra Valley and the surrounding hills to most natural resources. The major beneficiary of land settlement were the tea planters. The behaviour of the Assamese peasant reflected the habits formed by the old resource use regime
Archaeology · Assamese · Beneficiary · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Geography · Government (linguistics · Natural resource · Peasant · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Settlement (finance · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |