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The Formation of the Colonial State in India - Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860 (Hardcover)
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The Formation of the Colonial State in India - Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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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 in shaping the early
patterns of British colonial rule. This book offers a new way of
interpreting the colonial state's origins in north India. It
examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements
exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the
success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented
revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural
histories of various Hindu scribal communities fit within broader
changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of
governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The
author argues that British power after the late eighteenth century
came as much through bureaucratic mastery, paper and taxes as it
did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book
draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to
demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires,
and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj
by 1900. Offering a detailed account of how agrarian wealth
provided the bedrock of the colonial state's later patterns of
administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution
to studies in South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism.
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