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This study seeks to show that colonialism was not an uncalculated or pleasurable exercise, but in essence a business venture, involving hard-headed estimates of resources to be gained and profits won. In Central India, excessive revenue demands led to widespread indebtedness and land transfers, although the professed aims of British administrators was to bring prosperity and progress to a backward area.
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D. E. U. Baker is Reader in the History Department of St Stephen's College, Delhi.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0195630491
- ISBN 13 9780195630497
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages388
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