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... Letter from Canning to Wood, 6 December 1859, describing his view of the future position of the Oudh taluqdars. Wood Papers, India Office Library. 8 Letter of 24 March 1864 to Government of India in P. P. 1865, XL, 207. Wingfield was Chief Commissioner of Oudh 1859–66. On laissez faire...

... had responsibility for Oudh affairs from 1856-68. Dr. Raj begins with a short but useful survey of the Nawabi revenue system, and then devotes a chapter to each of the main aspects of the "Oudh question:" the policies followed towards the taluqdars before and after the Mutiny; the handling...

... in the discursive body of other works. Thomas R. Metcalf has amassed a great deal of detailed evidence about landlords (taluqdars and zamindars) in the Gangetic heartland of India, and he has succeeded as few historians could (or perhaps would wish) in rigorously maintaining the context of meanings within which...

.... Leader , Aug. 18, 1921, p. 10. 40 Associated Press report from Lucknow, Independent , Sept. 5, 1921, p. 4. 41 Oudh Policy, the policy of sympathy (Allahabad, 1906). Butler was deputy commissioner of Lucknow at the time. 42 Speech to taluqdars , Feb. 15, 1915, British Indian...

... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES course of events. The decisions were taken by British officials, but the taluqdars (with the help and encouragement of their official supporters) were not unimportant in the events leading to those decisions. Once again, Dr. Ra) is not unaware of these facts, but because of his...

... theirs was not a lawful profession, it was a profitable one, and thus should be taxed. They were, therefore, the only women on the tax register in their own right. In "the city must be loyal," Oldenburg details the emergence of a loyal elite, in particular the taluqdars of Oudh. The taluqdars have been...

...," Oldenburg details the emergence of a loyal elite, in particular the taluqdars of Oudh. The taluqdars have been thoroughly studied by Thomas Metcalf, but Oldenburg emphasizes their transformation into an urban elite from a rural one. This is a point well worth taking. v Oldenburg's work parallels...

... with the numerous public arenas involving Britons and their institutions law courts, Western schools, agricultural fetes in which taluqdars appeared absurd. Metcalf does not make enough of this contrast, or dualism or contradiction, with which his landlord subjects perplex us. That is, in their interaction...

... of the taluqdar who held the estate from 1889 to the early nineteen twenties. A man well educated in Indian languages, and methodical and orderly in his habits, he carefully preserved in large scrap books all of the letters he received. These letters, written in Urdu, touch upon a wide variety of subjects, among...

...-i Asafiyah , I, 149–152. A list of the taluqdars and their assignments in the early nineteenth century appears in L'al, Yadgar , 84–90. 35 Such intermediaries held a variety of rights in the recording and collection of land revenue. Such men were recognized by the current ruler...

... of detailed evidence about landlords (taluqdars and zamindars) in the Gangetic heartland of India, and he has succeeded as few historians could (or perhaps would wish) in rigorously maintaining the context of meanings within which the group of landlords that concern him had to operate in order to survive...

... of footnotes than in the discursive body of other works. Thomas R. Metcalf has amassed a great deal of detailed evidence about landlords (taluqdars and zamindars) in the Gangetic heartland of India, and he has succeeded as few historians could (or perhaps would wish) in rigorously maintaining the context...

... , 1961 ), 1 : 235 –36, 247–51 . In the later phase of the revolt, especially after the issuance of the Oudh Proclamation in March 1858, which ordered the confiscation of all land in the province, the taluqdars' resistance may well have been stiffened by a fear and dislike of the British. 7 See...

... and taluqdars, who gained power at the expense of the nawabs and established courts of their own. Although Fisher insists that the worlds of Lucknow and of the province were "mutually exclusive" (p. 225), still his intriguing account of the 1855 struggle over the Ajodhya mosque shows how deeply rooted even...

... and taluqdars, who gained power at the expense of the nawabs and established courts of their own. Although Fisher insists that the worlds of Lucknow and of the province were "mutually exclusive" (p. 225), still his intriguing account of the 1855 struggle over the Ajodhya mosque shows how deeply rooted even...

.... But the collapse of the central government did not lead to anarchy. Rather the local landholders, or taluqdars, as Sleeman observes time and again, took up many of the functions of government in the countryside. Though they fought with the Nawab and with each other, these men protected the peasantry and encouraged...

... the formulation of Government policy in the United Provinces to reestablish the taluqdars, 512 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES or the conciliatory Government policy toward knowledge of the people and not having to the Indian princes. learn a new language or use an interpreter. Despite these deficiencies, Kling's work...

... misgovernment, and it was on this ground that Dalhousie justified its annexation in 1856. Sleeman's journal provides ample evidence of the corruption and ineffectuality of the Nawab's officers. But the collapse of the central government did not lead to anarchy. Rather the local landholders, or taluqdars...

... where this sense of responsibility disappeared during the formulation of Government policy in the United Provinces to reestablish the taluqdars, ...

... Rama Madhavarama, literary figure (Kanti Lai Chhaganlal Pandya, Sriyuta Govardhana. Gujarati. BM. Bombay, 1910); Oudh taluqdars (Kisori Lal, Tawarikh-i-Ta'attukdaran-i-Awadh. Urdu. BM. Lucknow, 1880); Nahar family of Azimganj (Avinas Chandra Das, Nahar Vamshavrittanta , Bengali. BM. Calcutta, 1895...