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...Sharon Carstens Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910 . By James R. Rush . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1990 . 281 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 466 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Alexander F. Day Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule . By Hiroki Takeuchi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . xix, 234 pp. ISBN 9781107056848 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016...

.... Not all the details given in the returns are for the same date. For example, most of the revenue returns are based on five-year averages, but they are not always for precisely the same years (though the differences are small). Some domains gave ten-year averages, others gave no indication what practice...

...Mary Somers Heidhues The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State . Edited by John Butcher and Howard Dick . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . xviii, 306 pp. $69.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

...Lynn Zastoupil Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics 1757–1773 . By H. V. Bowen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xi, 204 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 949 systematically...

... the leading military, administrative, and economic groups within Bengal. Shortly after 1700, Murshid Quli Khan, first as Diwan and later as Nawab of Bangal, began a series of revenue and administrative reforms. By increasing revenue collections, he was able to satisfy the demands of the central government...

..., it has been assumed that the proprietary mutations which occurred in Rohilkhand after its cession in 1801 by the Nawab of Oudh to the East India Company are highly significant as a cause of the uprising. G. J. Christian, the Secretary to the Sudder Board of Revenue of the North-Western Provinces...

.... With the fragmentation of the Chinese state in the Republican period, Chinese regimes in Kham were forced to raise more revenue locally and reduce expenditure. Responding to these challenges shaped the nature of Chinese authority in Kham. The late Qing colonial government had paid Tibetans who provided livestock...

... hereditary daftardars , the keepers of the central revenue records—these men could usurp the Diwan's (Chief Minister's) traditional control of government finances. Without overemphasizing contrasts with the Mughal model, for few behavioral studies have been made of Mughal administration, other apparent...

...Yeh-Chien Wang Abstract As happened in Tokugawa Japan and British India, China under die Ching witnessed a relative decline in fiscal importance of die land tax although its absolute amount increased substantially. Between 1753 and 1908 China's annual land tax revenue grew from 74 million to 102...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Abstract The 1857 uprising, by shattering many of Britain's most cherished beliefs about India, introduced a decade of controversy and reappraisal in many fields. At the center of this controversy stood land policy, for the land revenue was the heart of the administrative system...

... for an expanding world economy (Adas 1989). The history of irrigation in India, where the British built large new irrigation works to increase colonial revenues and expand commercial production, provides a dramatic illustration of this. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 List...

... resulted from Siamese government attempts to increase its revenues and control in the North. In Chiang Mai and Phrae these attempts simultaneously threatened the livelihood and security of ordinary peasants, who formed the base of the rebellions, and groups outside the ranks of ordinary peasants, who...

..., the gabadagam ; such recipients were more like feudal overlords than farmers of the revenue. In other cases, villagers of certain castes performed certain specified services for the king, for other castes (usually higher castes) in their village, or for neighboring villages, and in return enjoyed certain fields...

... of Aligarh—Satish Chandra's Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court 1707–1740 (1959), Irfan Habib's The Agrarian System of the Mughal.Empire (1556–1707) (1963), M. Athar Ali's The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb (1966), and Noman Ahmad Siddiqi's Land Revenue Administration under the Mughals (1700–1730...

...Matthias van Rossum; Merve Tosun Abstract This article revisits our understanding of corvée labor regimes and their role and impact in the early expansion of colonialism and capitalism. Rather than remnants of feudal pasts, or in-kind taxation or revenue instruments of weak colonial powers, corvée...

... campaigns in the provinces from Hunan and Hupeh east to the sea and thus denied the ruling dynasty the rich lower-Yangtze revenue for more than a decade. The rebellion was active at one time or another in fourteen of the eighteen provinces of the empire. Antidynastic societies not part of the Taiping...

... disappearing. In the face of the pressures stemming from changing economics of the news business—which still has to be gathered at great expense, even if it can be distributed or shared by third parties practically for free (denying the gatherers their share of revenue)—one now encounters a new form of threat...

... Southeast Asia during the depression. The second section examines a number of factors—the alleged coercive power of the colonial state to secure its tax revenues and of rural capitalists to enforce debt and rent payments during a period of severe deflation—which would have had a major direct influence...

... for an unprecedented degree of centralization of fiscal functions. What has emerged appears to be the broadening of central responsibility for expenditures, particularly on Java, without corresponding increases in revenues to meet these new responsibilities. The problems of sharing with localities...