The Punjab Disturbances of 1907
The response of the British Government in India to Agrarian unrest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7336263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Gerald Barrier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 353-383 |
| Publication date | 1967-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00002651 |
| OpenAlex | W2130359835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 9 |
Two major factors determined the growth of Indian nationalism: developments within Indian society and indigenous political organizations and the British response to agitation and the demands of Indian politicians and interest groups. Current studies of Indian nationalism generally focus upon the former, while the relation of British rule to political development is either ignored or misunderstood. Frequently the British are portrayed as inept bureaucrats, or the government as a monolithic structure run on inflexible bureaucratic principles and bent upon a policy of repression. While the shoe often fits, this caricature ignores the basic fact that, despite mounting pressure from 1904 onwards, the British rulers managed to keep order and to choose their hour of departure. They were able to continue governing primarily because they were adroit in handling agitation, minimizing serious grievances, and retreating from policies or measures which threatened to inflame the subcontinent. Professor Anthony Low of the University of Sussex has shown graphically how the Government of India manipulated Gandhi's first and second civil disobedience campaigns to its own political advantage. This paper explores the background and the British response to an earlier but equally volatile situation, the 1907 rural disturbances in the Punjab
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Bureaucracy · Development economics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Indirect rule · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Unrest · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Identity Politics and Nationalisms in Colonial India
Peasant Revolts against Colonial Forces
Scientific Empire and Imperial Science
The Arya Samaj and Congress Politics in the Punjab, 1894-1908
A policy of credit disruption
Institutionalizing inequities in land ownership and water allocations during colonial times in Punjab, Pakistan
Musicians in protest
I ndia and the G reat War
British rule in the Punjab, 1849–1947
Law, Identity and Imperial Logics of Exclusion
Recent historical writing on the modern British Empire and commonwealth
Beyond the Abject
The politics of water in Colonial India
The return of the peasant to South Asian history
The Duty of Water
The irrigation technozone
Bhagat Singh's Corpse
India's Revolutionary Inheritance
Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab
Assuaging the Sikhs
Commercialisation, peasant differentiation and merchant capital in late nineteenth-century Bombay and Punjab
Class, Power, and Patronage
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2024 (58) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |