Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley write by Begam Abida Sultana. This book was released on 2016. Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Law and the Economy in Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Economy in Colonial India write by Tirthankar Roy. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Law and the Economy in Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s widely acknowledged that India’s legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. In all cases, the British struggled with limited capacity to enforce their laws and an insufficient knowledge of the enormous diversity and differentiation within Indian society. A disorderly body of laws, not conducive to production and trade, evolved over time. Roy and Swamy’s careful analysis not only sheds new light on the development of legal institutions in India, but also offers insights for India and other emerging countries through a look at what fosters the types of institutions that are key to economic growth.
Gendered Publics
Gendered Publics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Publics write by Hemjyoti Medhi. This book was released on 2023-10-15. Gendered Publics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding Secretary, the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer, a polemical columnist, and a successful publicist of two vernacular magazines in the 1940s. The book traverses these individual and collective journeys from the 1920s to the 1950s, exploring their negotiations with the complex terrain of the multi-ethnic Brahmaputra valley during the highly politicised period of the anti-colonial movement. It argues that theoretical understanding of the term public sphere may be enriched through an engagement with rare archival materials of these middle class women’s associations’ hand written minutes of meetings in a local language in early twentieth-century colonial India and posits that gender may not function merely as constitutive of the public, but how women’s collectives may shape, transform and orchestrate a veritable gendered public, resistant to both native patriarchy and sometimes to colonial authority.
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tea Environments and Plantation Culture write by Arnab Dey. This book was released on 2018-12-13. Tea Environments and Plantation Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings that had an immediate and long-term human and environmental impact on the region. Critiquing this imperial commodity's advertised mandate of agrarian modernization in colonial India, Dey points to numerous tea pests, disease ecologies, felled forests, harsh working conditions, wage manipulation, and political resistance as examples of tea's unseemly legacy in the subcontinent. Dey draws together the plant and the plantation in highlighting the ironies of the tea economy and its consequences for the agrarian history of eastern India.
Land System and Management in the Colonial Period
Land System and Management in the Colonial Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land System and Management in the Colonial Period write by Suparna Roy. This book was released on 2007. Land System and Management in the Colonial Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barak Valley is situated in the southern part of the Indian state of Assam.
