The book deals with the land revenue administration of the district of Midnapore during 1760 to 1885. It focuses the indepth interaction between the district administration and the Midnapore zamindars on one hand and the raiyats on the other revealing the nature of treatment received by the raiyats from the zamindars and the district administration. The work opens with a mini-census operation conducted by the administration in some selective parganas in order to ...
