This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule. Under the Maratha Kingdom, the Devs occupied a privileged position in the ritual, social and economic hierarchies of the state from the 1620s onwards, their continuing influence stemming principally from obtaining grants of rent-free land around Pune and successfully maintaining this inheritance from generation to generation. With the British conquest of Maharashtra in 1818, the close relations between state and privileged subject were slowly broken and by the 1850s, the British sought to settle the Devs' landed rights. Basing their inquiries on preconquest vernacular documents, they became entwined in disputes over the tenure of the Devs' lands and the mode of inheritance within the lineage that reveal a telling ignorance of the customary relations between the Indian State and its privileged subjects.
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This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule.
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alienated tenures, pilgrimage allowance, alienation inquiries, land inams, village inams, personal inam, revenue alienations, alienation settlements, inam villages, lineal male descendant, alienated revenue, district revenue officers, village assessment, grain duties, transit duties, department translation, temple trust, lineage segments, prescriptive title, summary settlement, revenue history, village revenues, impartible inheritance, personal inheritance, tenurial rights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inam Commission, Collector of Pune, Dev of Cincvad, Cincvad Samsthan, Deccan Commission, Revenue Commissioner, Parliamentary Papers, Bajaji Govind, Court of Directors, Peshwa Daftar, Moro Udhav, East India Records, Captain Cowper, Period of Transition, Ranjangav Devs, East India Company, Ganpat Dev, Devs of Cincvad, Gopalrav Hari, Persian Department, Memorandum of Cincvad, Southern Maratha Country, Sir John Malcolm, Records of the Bombay Government, Moreshvar Dev Browse Sample Pages:
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alienated tenures, pilgrimage allowance, alienation inquiries, land inams, village inams, personal inam, revenue alienations, alienation settlements, inam villages, lineal male descendant, alienated revenue, district revenue officers, village assessment, grain duties, transit duties, department translation, temple trust, lineage segments, prescriptive title, summary settlement, revenue history, village revenues, impartible inheritance, personal inheritance, tenurial rights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inam Commission, Collector of Pune, Dev of Cincvad, Cincvad Samsthan, Deccan Commission, Revenue Commissioner, Parliamentary Papers, Bajaji Govind, Court of Directors, Peshwa Daftar, Moro Udhav, East India Records, Captain Cowper, Period of Transition, Ranjangav Devs, East India Company, Ganpat Dev, Devs of Cincvad, Gopalrav Hari, Persian Department, Memorandum of Cincvad, Southern Maratha Country, Sir John Malcolm, Records of the Bombay Government, Moreshvar Dev Browse Sample Pages:
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