The formation of the colonial state in India (Record no. 50174)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138347571
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Distributor address ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002
Bill Number ;112672
Bill Date ;04/09/2018
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Classification number 954.031 BEL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hayden J.Bellenoit
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Title The formation of the colonial state in India
Remainder of title : scribes, paper and taxes, 1760-1860
Statement of responsibility, etc /Hayden J.Bellenoit
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2017.
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Extent ix, 219 pages
Other physical details : map
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
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Price amount 3419
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Series statement Routledge studies in South Asian history.
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Contents note Revenue administration and scribal skills in late Mughal India, c. 1650-1750 --<br/>The scribal families of Hindustan --<br/>Revenue and state-formation in the Doab, c. 1780-1840 --<br/>"Accounting for every grain" : the origins of the colonial archive in North India --<br/>Kayasthas, "caste" and administration under the Raj, c. 1860-1900.
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Summary, etc In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule. This book offers a new way of investigating the colonial state's origins in north India. It examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural histories of various Hindu pensmen/scribal communities fit within broader changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The author argues that British power after the late 18th century came as much through bureaucratic mastery and paper and taxes as it did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires, and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj by 1900. Providing a detailed account of how agrarian wealth provided the bedrock of colonial state's later patterns of administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution to studies of South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
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Genre/form data or focus term India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Non-focus term India -- Colonization -- History -- 18th century.
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Personal name Hayden J.Bellenoit
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