Colonial Penetration, Land Revenue Reforms and Transition of Cooch Behar from a Benevolent to a Predatory State 1772-1923
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2017-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Lama, Sudash
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University of North Bengal
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Das, S. (2017). Colonial Penetration, Land Revenue Reforms and Transition of Cooch Behar from a Benevolent to a Predatory State 1772-1923. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 10, 135–141. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3895
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Das, Shelly
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Cooch Behar a native state of India in Colonial terminology is situated in the
North-Eastern part of India. The territory of modern Cooch Behar originally formed
part of the ancient kingdom of Kamrup, and had no separate existence of its own as
a district principality before the division of that country between the King Nara
Narayan and his brother Sukladwaj, commonly known as Chila Rai, in the middle of
the 16th century. CoochBehar became feudatory state ' to the English East India
Company by virtue of the Treaty of 1773. It as because of colonial penetration and
the Land Revenue Reforms that totally metamorphosed the Cooch Behar State.
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10
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135 - 141