Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History (Second Edition)

ISBN 10: 9390232015 / ISBN 13: 9789390232017

Published by Primus Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History (Second Edition)
• Publisher: Primus Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9390232015
• ISBN 13: 9789390232017
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this volume, whose first edition won wide scholarly acclaim in India, nine distinguished Indian historians re-examine what is perhaps the central problem throughout India's history. In a general introduction, Frykenberg points out some of the broader aspects of the relations between land control and social structure. This is followed by a theoretical examination of the meaning of the concept of 'land' in an Indian milieu. Also included are essays on more specific themes: the zamindars under the Mughals; the disruption of land-holding under the British; the fate of the 'dispossessed'; the transformation of local rajas into landlords in Oudh; the Permanent Settlement in operation in a Bengal District; the integration of agrarian life in south India; the Ryotwari system in the Madras Presidency and the endurance and tenacity of village influences within south India from regime to regime. Specially new in this edition is an essay about persistent historical tendencies leading to structural disintegration entitled 'Traditional Processes of Power in South India'

About the Author

Robert Eric Frykenberg is Emeritus Professor of History and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include Guntur District, 1788-1848: A History of Local Influence and Central Authority in South India (1965); India: Today's World in Focus (1968); European History in World Perspective (1974); and Christianity in India: Beginnings to the Present (2008, 2010). Frykenberg has edited Land Tenure and Peasant in South Asia (1977; revd edn. in paperback 2020); Delhi Through the Ages: Essays on Urban History, Culture, and Society (1986; revd edn. in paperback 1993); Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross- Cultural Communication Since 1500, With Special Reference to Caste, Conversion, and Colonialism (2003); and co-edited with Judith M. Brown, Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions (2002).