Peasants into Frenchmen: The modernization of rural France 1870–1914: Eugene Weber, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 615. $20·00)

Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform

List of maps Preface Glossary List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Prologue: surveillance and communication in early modern India 2. Political intelligence and indigenous informants during the conquest of India, c. 1785-1815 3. Misinformation and failure on the fringes of empire 4. Between human intelligence and colonial knowledge 5. The Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere 6. Useful knowledge and godly society, c. 1830-50 7. Colonial controversies: astronomers and physicians 8. Colonial controversies: language and land 9. The information order, the Rebellion of 1857-9 and pacification 10. Epilogue: information, surveillance and the public arena after the Rebellion Conclusion: 'knowing the country' Bibliography Index.

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Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 . By C. A. Bayly. Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 412 pp. $64.95(cloth).

The Utilitarians have usually been regarded as exponents of a moral theory, but in this work Dr Stokes lays emphasis on their claim to have developed a practical science of society. Political failure caused their practical character to languish in England, but in India the Utilitarian principles won far greater success. He analyzes James Mill's influence as the London head of the Indian administration on Macaulay's Benthamite reforms and on Fitzjames Stephen's significance in the passage of Utilitarianism into Imperialism.

The English Utilitarians and India.

L'A. examine la pratique du recensement avant, pendant, et apres la periode coloniale en Inde, centrant son analyse sur l'enumeration, considere comme un processus central dans la formation de l'Etat et des identites. Afin de restaurer l'autonomie d'action des Indiens, il examine la signification de l'enumeration dans l'etablissement des frontieres sociales. Il montre que l'enumeration ne fut pas une innovation de l'administration coloniale. Les effets essentiels de l'enumeration pendant la periode coloniale et postcoloniale sont relies a la formation d'un espace politique indien unitaire et a l'institution politique electorale. L'A. examine d'abord les significations fiscales et politiques des pratiques administratives des Mughal et leur heritage au 18 eme siecle au niveau sous-continental. Il centre ensuite son analyse sur les regions de l'Inde occidentale et centrale jusqu'a la fin du 19 eme siecle, passant a nouveau a l'echelle sous-continentale pour les periodes suivantes. Finalement, il propose une etude de cas, montrant comment, en Inde occidentale, au niveau etatique, les communautes pouvaient communiquer, se reunir et de changer, en opposition a la legislation officielle, et independemment du recensement.

The politics of identity and enumeration in India c. 1600-1990

'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

The last six centuries saw the emergence of major empires that dominated every part of the world. Inevitably then, these imperial formations governed diverse and polyglot peoples. They also developed complex systems of governance that deployed unprecedented numbers of scribes and accountants, often drawn from groups culturally distinct from the military elites. Literati serving Western empires have been much studied of late; but the phenomenon did not originate with them. This article examines one such prominent group—the Brahmans of peninsular India—through five centuries. It explores little-known aspects of their professional training. It then analyses how they rose to a dominance that persisted well into the colonial era and deeply impacted the contemporary politics of India to the present day.

Serving the barbarian to preserve the dharma: The ideology and training of a clerical elite in Peninsular India c. 1300–1800

L'individu du royaume de Maratha en Inde au 18 eme siecle vivait sous plusieurs juridictions penales plus de celles du roi et de ses ministres : il pouvait etre puni de differente maniere par la caste, la communaute villageoise, le chef des commercants, le precepteur et le chef de famille. La procedure dans les cas de criminalite se caracterisait essentiellement par la correction des suspects battus. Le jugement etait souvent sommaire mais la punition severe et rapide. Amendes, emprisonnement ou esclavage, mutilations et mort sont les formes de punitions mais les plus puissants obtenaient les moindres peines et les plus faibles les plus dures

An indian penal régime: maharashtra in the eighteenth century

British rule brought about institutional changes in the Indian countryside, and historians have viewed most subsequent developments as a result of imperial intervention. While attaching due importance to the effects of British rule, Guha includes an assessment of the effects of agricultural techniques and the land-man ratio to show the difference between agricultural expansion and agricutural development, a distinction which has often been ignored.

Sumit Guha

Papers

The politics of identity and enumeration in India c. 1600-1990

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Serving the barbarian to preserve the dharma: The ideology and training of a clerical elite in Peninsular India c. 1300–1800

An indian penal régime: maharashtra in the eighteenth century

The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941.