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From Indian Status to British Contract*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Bernard S. Cohn
Bernard S. Cohn
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The University of Rochester
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One of the first problems confronting a colonial power after establishing de facto or de jure sovereignty over a new territory is to set up procedures for settling disputes arising within the dominated society, and to establish a whole range of rights in relation to property and obligations of individuals and groups to one another and to the state.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1961, pp. 613 - 628
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1961

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