Devs Cincvad: Lin State Maharashtra: A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra: 41 (Cambridge South Asian Studies, Series Number 41) - Softcover

Preston, Laurence W.

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ISBN 10: 0521047773 ISBN 13: 9780521047777

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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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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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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Book by Preston Laurence W

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521047773
• ISBN 13: 9780521047777
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288