Living on the edge
The village and the state on the Goa-Maratha frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Axelrod (Professor of Anthropology Ripon College, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 553-580 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001946460804500403 |
| OpenAlex | W2060297902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The New Conquest districts of Goa were seized by the Portuguese between 1763 and 1819, about 250 years after the Portuguese first colonised Goa. The villages of the New Conquests were contested terrains between quite a number of polities during that 250-year period, including the Bijapur Adilshahi rulers, the Mughals, the Marathas, the Kolhapur kings, the Sawants of Wadi, the Sonda kings and the Portuguese. The records for these villages have heretofore never been studied in any depth. My analysis of these records reveals the myriad ways in which the villages are both penetrated by state rule and retain their own structures. I conclude that the villages were able to persist over time within the context of the regional culture in varying degrees and under peculiar circumstances, but were not immune to the state penetration that transformed them to a degree. There is no one principle that can properly account for all cases, and no single formula for understanding village-state relations in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century India. The records show the multiple discourses of state rule, local agriculture and social practices, and the complexity of village-state relations
Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Portuguese · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
The inner conflict of tradition
Rulers, townsmen, and bazaars
Land control and social structure in Indian history.
The Eighteenth Century in Indian History
Peasant history in South India
Art. XI.— The Villages of Goa in the Early Sixteenth Century
Land and Sovereignty in India
Marathi Records On Village Communities in Goa Archives
Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Flight of the Deities
Portuguese Orientalism and the Making of the Village Communities of Goa
Of white whale and countrymen in the eighteenth-century Maratha Deccan. extended class relations, rights, and the problem of rural autonomy under the old regime1
Common Ground
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |