caa a22 4500 386389691 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00009513 doi S0026749X00009513 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00009513 Irschick Eugene F. University of California, Berkeley Order and Disorder in Colonial South India [Elektronische Daten] [Eugene F. Irschick] Recently, we have come to see that the perceptions which we had of the decay and destruction of India in the eighteenth century were more than anything else a product of British writing which sought consciously or unconsciously to magnify and color the changes which took place in the eighteenth century to enhance the magnitude of their own ‘achievements' from then onwards. ‘achievements' from then onwards. Secondly, we have come to see the interaction of British desires for political security on the one hand and a steady income from land and other taxes as producing a situation first of depression in the first half of the nineteenth century and later of gradual underdevelopment at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth. It is therefore possible now to understand the unwillingness of the British administration in India to engage in any large-scale developmental activity which would upset the political balance which the British had established early in their relationship with landed and mercantile groups in the area. In this essay, I should like to address the connection between British support for landed groups in the agrarian area outside of Madras on the one hand and the colonial ‘discovery' and reinforcement of traditions on the other, to understand both the nature of colonial control strategies and the genesis of Indian revivalism. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-07), 459-492 0026-749X 23:3<459 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00009513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00009513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Irschick Eugene F. University of California, Berkeley NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-07), 459-492 0026-749X 23:3<459 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge