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1980 ◽  
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Stephen Mennell ◽  
D. N. Ashton ◽  
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Bureaucracy and Control in India's Great Landed Estates: The Raj Darbhanga of Bihar, 1879 to 1950

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Henningham
Keyword(s):  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
North India ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intermediary Role ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
And Control ◽  
Official Sources

In north India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several great landed estates played a crucial part in the consolidation of imperial rule and in the support of the social and economic order. These estates have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but previous research has concentrated primarily on their relations with the colonial administraton and on their general intermediary role in north Indian society. The only study directly concerned with their internal affairs is Dr. P. J. Musgrave's ‘Landlords and Lords of the Land: Estate Management and Social Control in Uttar Pradesh 1860–1920’ (Modern Asian Studies, 6, 3 (1972), pp. 257–75), in which official sources are used as the basis for an account of the internal operations of the great estates in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Hitherto the major obstacle to the examination of the administration of the great estates has been the absence of comprehensive estate records. Fortunately the extensive and well-organized archives of the Raj Darbhanga of Bihar recently have been opened to scholars. In this paper the Raj archives have been drawn upon to provide evidence for an account of the structure and operation of the administration of the Raj Darbhanga during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The paper argues that despite substantial difficulties the Raj Darbhanga effectively pursued its interests by means of a bureaucratic system of management and that therefore Dr Musgrave's conclusions concerning the limited power of the great landed estates need substantial qualification and correction.

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1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-425
Author(s):  
Philip Corrigan ◽  
Paul Atkinson ◽  
Duncan Mitchell ◽  
Brian Longhurst ◽  
Michael Billig ◽  
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