Showing papers in "Studies in History in 2018"
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TL;DR: The authors presented a social history of power relations between domestic workers and their employers by examining the representations of servants in a wide array of Hindi print literature, including newspapers and magazines, and examined the representation of domestic workers in Hindi text.
Abstract: This essay presents a social history of power relations between domestic workers and their employers by examining the representations of servants in a wide array of Hindi print literature, includin...
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TL;DR: In 1865, the Madras government enacted a legislation, the Irrigation Cess Act, designed to allow it to extract revenue from water as separate as that from land.
Abstract: In 1865, the Madras government enacted a legislation, the Irrigation Cess Act, designed to allow it to extract revenue from water as separate as that from land. However, as emphasized by many comme...
4 citations
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TL;DR: The logic of occupation and appropriation that operated in the wake of the integration of the princely state of Junagadh to the dominion of India in November 1947 is discussed in this article.
Abstract: This article shows the logic of occupation and appropriation that operated in the wake of the integration of the princely state of Junagadh to the dominion of India in November 1947. This re-create...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors follow the debate on the implementation of the road cess in late nineteenth-century Bengal and understand how "cess" was defined, it enters the discussion on the problematic category of road cess.
Abstract: This article follows the debate on the implementation of the road cess in late nineteenth-century Bengal. To understand how ‘cess’ was defined, it enters the discussion on the problematic category ...
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TL;DR: A close reading of the Uttarakaaṇḍa of Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa demonstrates that its author has composed a carefully and logically structured work, one that is haunted by themes of sexual transgression as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A close reading of the Uttarakāṇḍa of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa demonstrates that its author has composed a carefully and logically structured work, one that is haunted by themes of sexual transgression. ...