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40 E S Gruen, "Roman Imperialism and the Greek Resistance", Journal of Inter-disciplinary History, IV, 1973.
41 Nightingale, op cit.
42 Taylor to the Commissioners, 8 March 1973, MCRD 1674/TA. 11-13. 48 Abercrombie to Dick, 30 March 1792, Secret and Political Department Diary No. 43, Bombay Archives.
44 The Commissioners' Minutes, April 24. 1792, SPDD 43/BA.
45 I have argued this out in my recent paper, "Myth and Reality of the Empiricism of Colonial Empires with Examples from the British Overseas Empire", University of Dares Salaam, 1977, mimeo.
46 Quoted by Low, op cit. 41.
47 Stokes, op cit.
48 E Stokes, English Utilitarians and India, Oxford, 1959.
49 Sec footnote No 47.
50 PJ Marshall, "Indian Officials under the East India Company in Eighteenth-century Bengal", Bengal Past and Present, LXXXIV, 1965. 61 Low, op cit. 52 Thomas Munro and the Way to Govern India in W Digby, {1'Prosperous'9 British
India : a Revelation from Official Records, Delhi, 1969, 39-40. 58 Sir Thomas Munro, "Minute on the Employment of Natives in the Public Service",
31 December 1824, G Bennett, cd. The Concept of Empire, London, 1953, 68-70. 84 Stokes, op cit.
65 Swai, °Myth and Reality of the Empiricism of Colonial Empires ....", op cit. ^ Ibid. 67 Quoted by G R Meller, British Imperial Trusteeship, 1783-1850, London
MCMLI, 22.
58 N K Sinha, The Economic History of Bengal from Plassey to the Permanent Settlement, 1, Calcutta, 1966.
59 Stokes, op cit., Alavi, op cit.
60 Interview between the Commissioners and Singam Pillai, 25 January 1792, MCRD 1676/TA.
61 SJ Shahani, "A Comparative Study of Traditional Political Organization of
Kerala and Panjab," Ph.D, University of London, 1965. e2 Graeme's Report, MCRD 4037/TA. 11. e8 Ibid.
64 For land system in Malabar see E Miller, "Village structure in North Kerala", M N Srinivas, (ed. India's Villages, Bombay 1960; D M Schneider and K Gough, Matrilineal Kinship, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962; A C Mayar, Land and Society in Malabar London, 1952; D Kumar,Law and Caste in South India, Cambridge 1960.
65 Farmer to Taylor, ? October 1792, Revenue Department Diary No 11, Bombay
Archives. e® Ibid. e7 SPDD43/B\.
68 Ibid.
69 Ibid.
70 Ibid.
71 Rama Varma to Handley, 18 January 1795, MCRD 2104/TA. 5.
72 Handley to Stevens, 31 January 1795, SPDD 49/B^. 78 Stcvens to Handler 14 January 1795; MCRD 210/TA. 3 74 Handley to Stevens, 13 January 1795, Ibid 2.
76 Oudhut Rai's interview with the Commissioners, MCRD 1879/TA. ^ MCRD 2562/TA. 4
77 Taylor to Farmer, ? October 1793, MCRD 2057/TA, 420.