Indian Continuity. Flashcards
What conditions were already in place in India that suited conquest?
Bengal textile workshop and port cities open to commerce.
Well developed financial system
Land revenue system. ‘self propelling’
Warrior labour market supply.
How and why were locals the face of the empire?
The brahmi caste levied and collected taxes and then passed them onto british. Imperial elites at a distance. ostensibly continuous.
Stokes and central India
Some parts were barely effected by colonialism, they retained the same power structures and when brits tried to alter things they met primary resistance.
18th century india was very unstable, why did central authority not yield a great deal of power?
The caste system within villages was so complex leaving little need for superior authority.
According to continuity thesis why could real reforms not be made?
India was to large and it would have been to great a cost.
What did the Zamindar’s do that was not changed?
They were the tax collecting caste and remianed so.
Stokes: ________ was the defining feature of india throughout the 19th century.
Elites caste holding onto there land.
Baden-Powell
practical adaptation to local circumstance
