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Risk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of a Region: A Study of HIV/AIDS in East Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh)
In: Sociological bulletin: journal of the Indian Sociological Society, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 127-147
ISSN: 2457-0257
Tribal revolts in colonial Andhra: Godavari and Vizagapatam regions 1857-1917
In: Studies on marginalities and discrimination series 3
Godavari Basin
Government of India, Ministry of Water Resouces, Godavari Basin, version 2.0 ; http://www.india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/
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110. A Primitive Oil-Extractor from the Godavari District
In: Man, Band 32, S. 84
How Modernity arrived to Godavari
In: Wilson , J 2017 , ' How Modernity arrived to Godavari ' , MODERN ASIAN STUDIES , vol. 51 , no. 2 , pp. 399-431 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X16000743
This article traces the way in which modern institutions emerged in one region of British-ruled India—the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra—during the early nineteenth century. Rejecting recently popular cultural theories and the vague language of 'multiple modernities', it suggests that modernity can be defined as the practical effort to govern subjects perceived as strangers with abstract and general categories. But, arguing that our conception of modernity needs to be limited, the article suggests that modern institutions always rely on non-modern ways of life: the rule of law depends on ideas about individual honour; bureaucracy; on family connections and affective expressions of loyalty; and rational interests that are coordinated by archaic idioms of political leadership. The peculiarity of the history of modernity in imperial India was marked not by the limited or partial imposition of modern practices, but by the British regime's reluctance to accept the legitimacy of the very non-modern forms of power it relied on. Tracing this process in the Godavari Delta, the article shows how a regime with limited local resources asserted the monopolistic authority of its structures of government, but in doing so, corroded its own capacity to exercise power. Local institutions which had coordinated local productive resources were undermined, but alternative forms of local leadership were unable to emerge. The consequence was famine in the 1830s, and in the 1840s an effort to refound the imperial regime by imposing British power on the region's natural resources.
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Shares of Fixed Factors of Production in the Net Earnings from Agriculture in West Godavari District
In: Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 93
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How Modernity Arrived to Godavari
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 399-431
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractThis article traces the way in which modern institutions emerged in one region of British-ruled India—the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra—during the early nineteenth century. Rejecting recently popular cultural theories and the vague language of 'multiple modernities', it suggests that modernity can be defined as the practical effort to govern subjects perceived as strangers with abstract and general categories. But, arguing that our conception of modernity needs to be limited, the article suggests that modern institutions always rely on non-modern ways of life: the rule of law depends on ideas about individual honour; bureaucracy; on family connections and affective expressions of loyalty; and rational interests that are coordinated by archaic idioms of political leadership. The peculiarity of the history of modernity in imperial India was marked not by the limited or partial imposition of modern practices, but by the British regime's reluctance to accept the legitimacy of the very non-modern forms of power it relied on. Tracing this process in the Godavari Delta, the article shows how a regime with limited local resources asserted the monopolistic authority of its structures of government, but in doing so, corroded its own capacity to exercise power. Local institutions which had coordinated local productive resources were undermined, but alternative forms of local leadership were unable to emerge. The consequence was famine in the 1830s, and in the 1840s an effort to refound the imperial regime by imposing British power on the region's natural resources.
Canal irrigation and agrarian change in colonial Andhra: a study of Godavari district, c.1850-1890
In: The Indian economic and social history review: IESHR, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 25-60
ISSN: 0973-0893
NREGA Programme Activities Impact on the Beneficiaries Job Provision with Reference to West Godavari District
In: Recent Trends in Multi-Disciplinary Research, Band -1
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Employment and unemployment of rural labour and the crash programme: a study of West Godavari District
In: Andhra University series no. 121