Property rights and social uses of land in Portuguese India: the Province of the North (1534-1739)

Münch, Miranda S.M.; Serrão, José Vicente; Direito, Bárbara; Rodrigues, Eugénia

doi:10.15847/cehc.prlteoe.945x014

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“…Distant mainland empires of the Gujarat Sultanate and princely Maratha states ruled Malad's pre‐colonial Salsettle Island. Concerned only with the final revenue, they allowed local feudal lords autonomy to collect taxes from tenants ‘at will’ (Dossal, 2010; Miranda, 2014, p. 169; Rao, 2020). Hence, among the paddy and salt producers, some could be seen to form the minor ‘ yin ’, entangled and dominated by multifarious land tenurial practices around ethnicity‐shaped pastoral agro‐work, a territorial ‘ yang ’.…”

Section: Interacting Diachronic and Synchronic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such territorial complexity continued into the early sixteenth century Portuguese colonialism. More interested in waging war against British and Spanish armadas than land‐based revenue, the beach‐sited Portuguese forts avoided unnecessary territorial expansion, retaining the existing Maratha chieftains as a ‘fazendar’‐based revenue administration with an overlaid ‘hybrid’ property title ‘ Prazos do Norte ’ (Miranda, 2014, pp. 171–173).…”

Section: Interacting Diachronic and Synchronic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land, property, and territory: Mutual embeddedness as understood by the tongbian philosophy

Tang,

Gupte,

Shetty

et al. 2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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The dominant tone of the literature on land's territorial politics misses conceptual complexities by neglecting historical constructions of land practices. An alternative understanding intertwines social and political elements emphasised in the non‐dualistic, beyond dialectics, tongbian philosophy. This views everything as consisting of two mutually embedded, opposite poles—different yet without alienation; set in a ceaseless interaction as processes of becoming, continuity and change. The concept of focus–field relationship via a spatial story deciphers complexities between viewing land as territory (LaT) and land as property (LaP). Mobilising this formulation in sites of intensive real estate change (Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po and Mumbai's Malad) reveals subtleties of historical antecedents shaping contemporary forces. Here, complex institutional entanglements reveal both diachronic and synchronic interactions wherein the dynamics of control, shifts in power, growth or decline in time and space co‐join LaT and LaP. Such political complexities question views of land's transformation being contingent on archaic ideas of the Westphalian state and uni‐polar framings of capital moving from the North to the South. The tongbian philosophy allows the exploring of ideas of difference without alienation, embracing epistemic and ontological equivalence in theory and fieldwork, and between the North and South—themes seldom taken up in the geographical literature. Finally, the paper proposes a study of land dynamics using the concept of land occupancy via the spatial story approach.

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Section: Interacting Diachronic and Synchronic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interacting Diachronic and Synchronic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%