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Nature, property and polity in colonial Bombay

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Notes

  • 1927 . Report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India, Vol. 11, Evidence Taken in the Bombay Presidency London (henceforth RCA)
  • Government of Bombay . Survey and Settlement Manual (1840) Annexure B ii
  • Collector of Sholapur . 1859 . Papers Regarding Cultivable Wastes at the Disposal of Government 13
  • 1880 . Report of the Indian Famine Commission Vol. 1 , 76 London
  • Imperial Gazetteer of India , VIII 313 (henceforth IGI)
  • Nov. 1919 . Bombay Land Revenue Proceedings Vol. 10558 , Nov. ,
  • Feb. 1923 . Bombay Land Revenue Proceedings Vol. 11330 , Feb. ,

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