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29 October 2018

JOURNAL: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. LXI (Special issue on Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide)


(Source: Brill)

We learned of a special issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient on Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide-Introduction; Author: Faisal Chaudhry; pp.: 759–802 (44)
The Theory and Practice of Property in Premodern South Asia: Disparities and Convergences; Author: Timothy Lubin; pp.: 803–850 (48)
Property and Social Relations in Mughal India: Litigations and Disputes at the Qazi’s Court in Urban Localities, 17th-18th Centuries; Author: Farhat Hasan; pp.: 851–877 (27)
Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556-1818; Author: Sudev Sheth; pp.: 878–919 (42)
Property and Its Rule (in Late Indo-Islamicate and Early Colonial) South Asia: What’s in a Name?; Author: Faisal Chaudhry; pp.: 920–975 (56)
Sovereignty, Property and Land Development: The East India Company in Madras; Author: Bhavani Raman; pp.: 976–1004 (29)
The Problem of Property: Local Histories and Political-Economic Categories in British India; Author: Upal Chakrabarti; pp.: 1005–1035 (31)
Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal; Author: Debjani Bhattacharyya; pp.: 1036–1073 (38)

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