The Making of Modern Sindh British Policy and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century

by Khuhro, Hamida

• ISBN13: 9780195790085
• ISBN10: 0195790081
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is a study of the British administrative policy in the initial stages, the imperatives which went into the framing of the administrative policy, the policy itself and the immediate dislocation of the society under the new and unfamiliar dispensation. The author has laid bare the ground realities of the process of colonial administration, its methods and its effects.

Author Biography

Hamida Khuhro was Professor of History at Sindh University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction to this Edition
Introduction
The Structure of Administration	p. 1
Jagir Settlement	p. 31
Land Revenue Administration	p. 88
Irrigation	p. 151
Trade and Communications	p. 174
Language and Education	p. 223
British Administrative Policy and the Role of Bartle Frere	p. 280
Epilogue	p. 290
Glossary	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 315
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