Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

ISBN: 9780521526548 出版年：1993 页码：373 John R McLane Cambridge University Press

List of tables Preface and acknowledgments List of abbreviations Select glossary Map of southwest Bengal Part I. Bengal: 1. Introduction 2. Nazims of Bengal and the large zamindars 3. Collecting rents and revenues 4. Coercion 5. Political gifts and patronage Part II. Burdwan: 6. Meghal Burdwan and the rise of the Burdwan raj 7. Burdwan's expansion 8. The Maratha invasions, 1742-1751 9. Zamindars and the transition to Company rule 10. The famine of 1770 11. Revenue farming, 1771-1777 12. Zamindari family politics the Burdwan raj, 1770-1775 13. The politics of Burdwan family debt and marriages, 1775-1778 14. Testing the limits, 1778-1790 15. Burdwan under the decennial and permanent settlements 16. Patnis and the elusive quest for independence and security 17. Conclusion Bibliography Index.