The divided right to collect land revenue between the English East India Company and Jagirdar : a case study of dutarfa in Ratnagiri Taluka of the Bombay Presidency in the early 19th century

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  • イギリス東インド会社とジャーギールダールの地税徴収権の分割 : 19世紀前半ボンベイ管区ラトナーギリー郡の「二重支配」を事例にして
  • イギリス ヒガシインド ガイシャ ト ジャーギールダール ノ チゼイ チョウシュウケン ノ ブンカツ 19セイキ ゼンハン ボンベイ カンク ラトナーギリーグン ノ ニジュウ シハイ オ ジレイ ニ シテ

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The aim of this article is to consider the British colonial rule in India through a study of a divided right to collect land revenue between the Company Government and indigenous landed revenue holders, such as Jagirdars. This article focuses on the divided right called dutarfa [having two rulers] in Ratnagiri Taluka in the early 19th century between the Bombay Government and the Jagirdar based at Vishalgad Fort. The Government and the Jagirdar divided not only share of landed produce but also various rights in the economy and in the judiciary. Both exercised these rights through local magnates, such as khots [farmers], traders, etc., and therefore ruled the area indirectly under dutarfa. The relations under dutarfa between the Bombay Government and the Jagirdar continued from the pre-colonial period according to the treaties of 1770 and 1784 between the peshwa [prime minister of the Maratha Kingdom] and the Jagirdar. But these relations were changed by two policies of the Bombay Government, viz. 'Doctrine of Lapse' and the abolition of transit duties in 1838, which restricted various interests of the Jagirdar and decreased their power. This change took place under a series of new policies of the Company Government beginning from the 1830s.

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