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Land tax, property rights and peasant insecurity in colonial India

Amiya Kumar Bagchi Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 10 Lake Terrace, Calcutta, 70029, India
Pages 1-49 | Published online: 05 Jun 2010

Notes

  • Elphinstone , M. 25 October 1819 . Report on the Territories conquered from the Peshwas 25 October ,
  • Tucker , H. St. George . 1853 . Memorials of Indian Government 113 London

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