Author: Cassels, Nancy Gardner
Title: Religion and Pilgrim Tax under the Company Raj
Description: New Delhi, Manohar Publications, (1987). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xii,184 pp. Some rubbing to binding. A small hole to dustwrapper.. Top corners of the last 10 pages rumpled. Good. ¶ Series: Heidelberg University, New Delhi Branch, South Asia Institute, South Asian studies, no. 17. Chiefly on the administration of pilgrim tax at Shri Jagannath Temple, Puri, Orissa. Contents: Introduction: The ' Compact' Ideal; The Pilgrim Tax & Jagannath Temple; Decision to Collect the Pilgrim Tax; Company Established Dyarchy at Jagannath Temple; Pilgrim Tax Regulations Receive Ultimate Sanction; Evangelical Pressures Produce Equivocation; Abolition of the Pilgrim Tax; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendices.

Keywords: Indian Colonial History, East India Company, British Colonialism, India South Asia, Jagannath Temple, Puri Orissa, Pilgrim Pilgrims, Tax Taxation, Colonial Colony, Hindu Hinduism