1st Edition
The Formation of the Colonial State in India Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860
By Hayden J. Bellenoit
Copyright 2017
230 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 interpreting... Read more
Introduction
- Revenue administration and scribal skills in late Mughal India, c.1650-1750
- The scribal families of Hindustan
- Revenue and state-formation in the Doab, c.1780-1840
- ‘Accounting for every grain’: the origins of the colonial archive in north India
- Kayasthas, ‘caste’ and administration under the Raj, c.1860-1900
Conclusion
Biography
Hayden J. Bellenoit is Associate Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, USA. He is the author of Missionary Education and Empire in late Colonial India, 1860-1920 (2007) and has published in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and South Asian History and Culture. He holds a DPhil in modern history from Oxford University, UK.
