By J. Wilson

Supplying an important new interpretation of the transformation of political concept and perform in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers strains the origins of contemporary principles in regards to the nation and Indian civil society to the sensible interplay among the British and their south Asian matters.

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A. 20 The akhlaq literature mentioned above was concerned mostly with the relationship between the Mughal regime and its subjects. But most of Bengal’s population had a more significant relationship with smaller units of authority, units that can be described either as landed estates (zamindaris) or little kingdoms (rajyas). These domains were ruled by men and women described as landholders (zamindars) or kings and queens (raja or rani), although other terms were used as well. 5–2 million or £75–100,000) in revenue to the diwan (Mughal provincial ruler) in the 1760s, to smallholdings that contributed less than a Rupee.

34 Elsewhere, especially in the south-eastern district of Bakarganj, zimmadari estates were built when peasants transferred their allegiance from one landholder by ‘placing themselves under the zimma of another’. 36 The landholders’ use of these various idioms to persuade the rural population to submit to their authority occurred in a context where labour was relatively scarce compared to land and peasants had choices. One of the first things the East India Company’s British officials noticed on their arrival in Bengal was the amount of uncultivated land.

33 Protection, however, was always a two-way process. Peasants who wanted to escape from the rule of one zamindar sought the zimma of another. 34 Elsewhere, especially in the south-eastern district of Bakarganj, zimmadari estates were built when peasants transferred their allegiance from one landholder by ‘placing themselves under the zimma of another’. 36 The landholders’ use of these various idioms to persuade the rural population to submit to their authority occurred in a context where labour was relatively scarce compared to land and peasants had choices.

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