Nineteenth-Century Colonialism and the Great Indian Revolt by Amit Kumar Gupta

Author:Amit Kumar Gupta [Gupta, Amit Kumar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, India & South Asia, Political Science, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781317386681
Google: yt6oCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05T01:25:43+00:00

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Against Peasantry

The superintending and supervisory officials of the Companyraj in India — whether deciding upon the assessment of land or collecting the amount of land tax — laboured hard to live up to the expectations of their superior authorities. The collection of revenue between the 1820s and the 1850s, as carried out in the NWP by the collectors and their subordinates, was not only highly efficient but also coldly severe. It had to be so from the British point of view in an age of imperialist expansion, culminating in expensive military campaigns in Afghanistan, Sind, Gwalior, Punjab and Burma, and resulting in financial deficits from 1838 to 1848. ‘The Government must draw from the country as large an income as its resources can be made to bear upon, not only for meeting the war expenditure but also for spending on internal security and good government all around.’1

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