Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was
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The Barber’s Trade Union Among the makers of modern India‚ chandu‚ the barber boy of our village‚ has a place which will be denied him unless I press for the recognition of his contribution to history. Chandu’s peculiar claim to recognition rested‚ to tell the truth‚ on an exploit of which he did not know the full significance. But then‚ unlike most great men of India today‚ he had a very exaggerated notion of his own importance‚ though he shared with them a certain native egotism which was sometimes
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¨Daisy‚ come here girl¨ Trevor hollered. Trevor poured dog chow in a bowl and and gave her a kiss goodbye. Daisy was the only thing Trevor truly cared about anymore. She reminds him of the beautiful memories he had with his wife after he lost her. The Vice Lords were one of the most terrifying gangs in downtown Chicago. Trevor used to be a member of this gang. It was a cold night when Trevor was heading to dinner with his wife. They were going to the local taco truck in their town. This used to
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 ABOUT THE STUDENTS INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES) SIWES‚ an acronym for Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme was introduced by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in collaboration with the Industrial Trust Fund (ITF) in the early 70’s between registered industries or establishments and the institution of higher learning. Funded by the Federal Government is an accepted skills training programme for all the Nigerian Universities. Completion of the Students
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Economics 515 Midterm 1 1. Economic growth vs. economic development‚ define extensive growth & intensive growth Economic growth is the sustained increase in the output of goods/services of a society. Economic development is economic growth plus changes in technical and institutional arrangements by with output are produced. Extensive growth- increase in output due to increase in inputs (labor force grows‚ land stock increases) Intensive growth- increase in output per unit of input –
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The true causes of unrest are sometimes difficult to determine. Frequently‚ there are a mixture of political alliances‚ economic differences‚ ethnic feuds‚ religious differences and others: This paper looks at the unrest between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland‚ "the troubles" are partly rooted in Catholic/Protestant differences‚ partly in political allegiances‚ and probably partly in hatreds that go back so far that the exact reason is lost in the mists of
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The science of Economics first developed in 1305 in France. Merchants traveled from region to region to trade with other merchants. Inside the tents that merchants kept their goods in‚ there were lists that stated loan amounts. In 1550 in Germany‚ Andreas Ryff described that trading with other regions was difficult because of the varying measuring systems and the tolls. Next in Boston in the year 1639‚ a man was sentenced to punishment for making a large profit. Before Economics existed‚ many societies
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UNIT 1 VOCABULARY detriment dexterous discretion facetious gregarious optimum ostentatious scrupulous sensory vicarious TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT: In the space provided‚ write the letter of the meaning closest to that of each boldfaced word. Use the context of the sentences to help you figure out each word’s meaning. 1. detriment [noun] Loni’s purple hair may be a detriment when she goes for a job interview. Smoking is a detriment to your health. It’s estimated that each cigarette smoked
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which gave the main road it’s name appeared during this time. The Industrialisation brought many workers in from the countryside (urbanisation)‚ with the landlords building tiny terreced houses to rent to the poor. During the Victorian Times Notting Hill was a rough‚ working class area and by the 1950’s the area had become synonymous with slum landlords and inner-city deprivation. In 1958‚ it was the scene of many race riots after the tensions arose between the newly arrived afro-caribbean community and
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This caused many landlords to lose many workers and tenants. Although they were down on help in their fields‚ they didn’t want to pay their remaining workers any more than their original wages. It became so drastic that many tenants didn’t want to work for their landlords as a part of the system of feudalism‚ so the system and practice ended up dying out. The aftermath of the disease also impacted
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