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This work is a study of the early British Indian economic history, particularly agrarian and environmental history, in the framework of colonial transformation of Indian agriculture. The Ganga-Jamuna Doab is the focus of the examination. After the annexation of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces 1801/3, the British motivated a large scale agrarian revolution. Whereas village based agriculture itself was not changed, the strict British revenue policy forced a ...
India is rather notorious for its urban problems: Kolkata and the plight of her urban poor has become the epitome for the urban nightmare; Dharavi-slum of Mumbai has the distinction of being the largest in Asia; Delhi has the infamous reputation of being one of the most polluted cities of the world; and much lesser known Surat has entered the public consciousness as the city where a supposedly extinct disease of the middle ages - the plague - had reappeared in ...