A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement by Ranajit Guha, Amartya Sen

A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement

Ranajit Guha, Amartya Sen

241 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

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By proclaiming the Permanent Settlement in 1793, the British hoped to promote a prosperous capitalist agriculture of the kind that had developed in England. The act renounced for all time the state's right to raise the assessment already made upon...

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