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Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Land and Local Kingship in EighteenthCentury Bengal - Cambridge South Asian Studies
Author: John R. McLane
This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the British hegemony. He focuses on zamindari rent extraction, techniques...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521410748
ISBN-10: 0521410746
Publication Date: 9/1/1993
Pages: 371
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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