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    Agrarian Structure and Social Change: Cooch Behar
    (University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Das, Shelly
    Cooch Behar has been transformed from an earlier kingdom to a State and from a State to the present status of a district. By colonial intervention (1772) the state was transformed into a quasi-feudal State. Several settlements had occurred by the East-India Company in the consecutive years. It fabricated a new social order in terms of caste hierarchies and caste differences. A group of people who migrated from the adjacent state of Cooch Behar to hold the lease of Land as well as administrative posts. This phenomenon created a complexity in the society where the best parts of Rajbashi were marginalized.
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    Colonial Penetration, Land Revenue Reforms and Transition of Cooch Behar from a Benevolent to a Predatory State 1772-1923
    (University of North Bengal, 2017-03) Das, Shelly
    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.