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    • Girija Joshi, Centre d'Études Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2025
    September 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009512527
    9781009512510
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009512527
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 343 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    This book offers a historical perspective on the relationship between community, subsistence, and governance in north-western India. Focusing on Panjab, it explores the continuities in kinship and caste practices of rural Panjabi populations from the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries. Working from the household outwards, it studies how agropastoral lineages formed, and how some of these managed during the eighteenth century to establish autonomous states or riyasats of their own. From the early nineteenth century onwards, this riyasati order was systematically dismantled by the colonial state. Nevertheless, this book suggests that colonial attempts to settle and reform rural society, by changing both its relationship to the environment and by imposing new definitions of 'community' upon it were met with uneven success. Colonial subjects in rural Panjab continued to forge bonds of kinship beyond the legal limits imposed by the state.

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