Author: Yang, Anand A.
Title: The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793 - 1920
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,271 pp.. Textual maps & tables. An ink mark to top page-edge, minor page-edge soil, VG. dustwra ¶ Contents: The Setting of Control: Metaphors of Control: The View from Sonepur Mela & Meet; The Agrarian Landscape of Control; The Limited Raj System: The Initial Encounter: The British Establishment of Connections, 1765-1793; Government & Its Allies: The System of Control & Collaboration; The Limited Raj: The British Development of Local Control Institutions; Estate Control & Management Systems; Between Raja & Raiyat; The Structures of Control in the Great Estate of Hathwa; The Dynamics of Hathwa Control: Two Case Studies; Zamindars & Maliks: Structure & Strategies of Control; Peasant Options in a Colonial Society; Desertion & Migration as Peasant Options; Resistance, Violence & Collective Action as Peasant Options; Conclusions.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, India British Rural, History Society Raj, Colonial Peasants, Economic Economy, Agrarian Relations, Landholders Elites, Saran South Asia, Peasantry Social