Grass in Their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India Under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793-1830

The core of the book consists of superbly-detailed studies of how, on a frontier of colonial India, village leaders, Indian policemen and revenue officials, bankers and judges confronted, survived, or profited from the system imposed upon them in 1793.

About the author

Dirk H.A. Kolff, Ph.D. (1983) in History, Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of South Asian History, Leiden University. His publications mainly deal with the early modern history of India.

Product details

• Authors: Dirk H A Kolff, Dirk H. A. Kolff
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2010
• EAN: 9789004185029
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18502-9
• No. of pages: 664
• Weight: 1116 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous