'The real value of the lands': The Nawabs, the British and the land tax in eighteenth-century Bengal

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 517-558

  Travers, T R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3843126779     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X03001148     Document Type: Article

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