Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal (Paperback)

List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Select glossary; Map of southwest Bengal; Part I. Bengal: 1. Introduction; 2. Nazims of Bengal and the large zamindars; 3. Collecting rents and revenues; 4. Coercion; 5. Political gifts and patronage; Part II. Burdwan: 6. Meghal Burdwan and the rise of the Burdwan raj; 7. Burdwan's expansion; 8. The Maratha invasions, 1742?1751; 9. Zamindars and the transition to Company rule; 10. The famine of 1770; 11. Revenue farming, 1771?1777; 12. Zamindari family politics; the Burdwan raj, 1770?1775; 13. The politics of Burdwan family debt and marriages, 1775?1778; 14. Testing the limits, 1778?1790; 15. Burdwan under the decennial and permanent settlements; 16. Patnis and the elusive quest for independence and security; 17. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.