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The formation of the colonial state in India : scribes, paper and taxes, 1760-1860 /

"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...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Bellenoit, H. J. A.
Formatua: Printed Book
Argitaratua: London: Routledge, 2017.
Saila:Routledge studies in South Asian history ;
Gaiak:
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=9TElDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=9780415704472&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic67uBzY3hAhXJ6Y8KHY40CZ4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9780415704472&f=false
Aurkibidea:
  • 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.