Rule by Records

Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2579228
AutoresF Osella (0000-0001-7054-9275), Richard Saumarez Smith
Ano1998
Volume4
Fascículo2
Páginas400
Data de publicação1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3034563
OpenAlexW1980789736
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21

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