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Guha is one of the colleagues of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Subaltern Studies group in India. Edward Said, in his book Culture and Imperialism (1993) says, "Guha is . . . concerned with the problematic of continuity and discontinuity" [in postcolonial countries] and "for [Guha] the issue has autobiographical resonances, given his profoundly self-conscious methodological preoccupations. How is one to study the Indian past as radically affected by British power?"
The book examines the radical effects of the 1790-1800 Permanent Settlement ruling of the British colonial administration, which created a new landowning class of Indians who collaborated as civil servants with the administration, and thereby the ruling encouraged a making of land ownership into a market commodity, as colonialism did generally in subjugated countries. The commodification of land lent itself to an emphasis on cash crop monocultures for resale to the Colonial power and led to some of the worst famines of the nineteenth century. The inciting question for Guha was, in his words, "How was it that the quasi-feudal land settlement of 1793 had originated from the ideas of a man [Philip Francis] who was a great admirer of the French Revolution? One could not know from the history books that such a contradiction existed and had to be explained."
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Colonialism, East India Company, History, Land, Land tenure, Land value taxation, Law and legislation, Non-fiction, Politics and government, Real property, famine, feudalism, post-colonialism, scholarly historical essay, social classes, taxation, Land tenure, law and legislation, India, history, 18th century, India, politics and government, 1765-1947, Bengal (india), history, Land tenure, india, Propiedad, HistoriaTimes
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A rule of property for Bengal: an essay on the idea of permanent settlement
1996, Duke University Press
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A rule of property for Bengal: an essay on the idea of permanent settlement
1982, Orient Longman, Distributor, Apt Books
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A rule of property for Bengal: an essay of the idea of permanent settlement
1981, Orient Longman, exclusive distributor, Apt Books
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A rule of property for Bengal: an essay on the idea of permanent settlement.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [211]-216.
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