Foreword / Amartya Sen ix Preface to Second Edition xi Preface to First Edition xiii Abbreviations xv Chapter I. Introduction 1 Chapter II. Early Departures, 1769-1772 11 1. Alexander Dow: Philosopher and Mercantilist 12 2. Henry Pattullo: A French Lesson for Bengal 36 3. The Supervisors and the Rejection of the "Farming System" 44 Chapter III. The Personality and Politics of Philip Francis 58 1. Verdicts on Francis 58 2. A Young Alcibiades 62 3. The Search for "Public Virtue" 67 Chapter IV. The Plan of 1776 91 1. The Scope and Method of the Plan 93 2. The Political Economy of Permanent Settlement: The Agrarian Programme 97 3. The Political Economy of Permanent Settlement: The Commercial Programme 133 4. "Who is King of Bengal?" 151 Chapter V. The Progress of the Doctrine 170 1. The Act of 1784 and the Dilemma of Macpherson's Government 171 2. Lord Cornwallis and the Idea of Improvement 178 3. Thomas Lane and the Doctrine in its Final Form 185 Chapter VI. First Doubts 201 Appendix: "Of the Territorial Revenues: Under which Title and in what Manner are they to be collected?" 218 Glossary 225 Bibliography 227 Index 235
Ranajit Guha is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the Research School of Paci&supl;c and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He is the founder-editor of Subaltern Studies.
"Constituting an archaeology of certain modes of colonialist knowledge, A Rule of Property for Bengal is most important for its patient elaboration of how modes of knowledge, developed to account for European civil society, are modified in their intersection with the political exigencies of the colonizing project to become hegemonic for both the rulers and the native elites."-David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley "Guha's study, still controversial, remains the decisive study of the Permanent Settlement."-Ronald Inden, University of Chicago
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