The Khandesh Survey Riots of 1852
Government policy and rural society in Western India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9274142 |
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| Authors | J F M Jhirad (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-165 |
| Publication date | 1968-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00126620 |
| OpenAlex | W2327366704 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The traditional forms of landholding and the government's land policy are two problems in the study of the nature of social change in 19th-century Western India; as the necessary aetiology of agrarian movements they are also linked with the organization and idiom of popular protest on the one hand, and the structure and temper of official institutions on the other. The Khandesh Survey riots are a microcosm of these problems as they existed in a raīyatwārī (peasant-proprietary) area of the Bombay Presidency, five years before the Mutiny. An analysis of the agrarian relations—partly as seen articulated in the movement of the riots—seems to have an undiminished relevance for later periods, and may perhaps qualify an impression of the Bombay raīyatwārī system as one where the government as landlord had a uniformly direct relationship with a standard cultivatortenant
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Landlord · Mutiny · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Sociology · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Highly cited | No |
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