The Permanent Settlement in Bengal

The Permanent Settlement in Bengal
Author: Sirajul Islam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1979
Genre: Bengal (India)
ISBN:

On the land tenancy system in Bengal introduced under the Permanent settlement act of 1793.

Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India

Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
Author: Indrani Chatterjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to release these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.