Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab
by Richard Saumerez Smith
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When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature ofagrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. The result challenges established concepts and show more procedures in both history and sociology. show lessTags
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