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9780521051804

Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarājya

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    9780521051804

  • ISBN10:

    0521051800

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-12-03
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This original contribution to Indian history, focusing on contemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set of concepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically it examines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or 'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It traces the expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policy of 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslim expansion throughout its history. The book gives an interesting perspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British period as well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its most important successor polity, on its capacity for change and development in the intermediate sections of society, the land-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on the fiscal system.

Table of Contents

List of maps and diagrams
Preface
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Brahman, King and Emperor
Sovereignty and universal dominion
Mughal expansion in the Deccan
The Maratha svar-+jya in the eighteenth century
Conclusions and summary
The Co-Sharers of the Realm
Sovereignty, vested rights and sedition
The king-s co-sharers
Patrilineage and coparcenary
Grants of land
The grant of land as act of sovereignty
The King-s Share
Land and taxation
The standard assessment
Adjustments of the standard assessment
Tenancy relations
Conclusion
Regulation and Repartition
The brahman bureaucracy
Repartition and assignment of the king-s share
Monetization and the cash-nexus
Revenue farming
Conclusion and summary
Epilogue
Key to selections of papers from the records at the East-India House
Bibliography
Index
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