Revenue Nodes in South India and Central Java

Mason Hoadley () and Neelambar Hatti ()
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Mason Hoadley: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Postal: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Box 201, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Neelambar Hatti: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Box 7083, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden

No 169, Lund Papers in Economic History from Lund University, Department of Economic History

Abstract: Studies of relations binding ruled and ruler over the form and content of revenue assessment during the colonial era are not lacking. Rather, the intellectual challenge lies in ascertaining the degree to which the relevant economic institutions of the subjected regions in southern Asia constituted continuity of tradition, modifications thereof, or completely alien constructs. Meeting that challenge is hindered by inequality of information revealing ‘before’ and ‘after’ conditions; an embarrassment of riches in information on the latter contrasts to poverty of the former. The present paper aims at least partially filling that gap by ascertaining in comparative perspective the basis of the revenue assessment systems prevailing in South India (Karnataka) and Central Java (Yogyakarta) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What makes such an undertaking not only desirable from a scholarly point of view but also possible in practice is the near unique finds of virtually untapped original source materials deriving from the respective institutions’ function.

Keywords: Revenue assessment; Land tenure; Inequality; Archival sources; Kaditas; South India; Central Java; Local administrative traditions; Colonial policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 N35 N45 N95 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2017-12-15
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