Big fish in small ponds: the exercise of power in a nineteenth-century Philippine municipality
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The local magistrate and administrator, the parish priest, their assistants and the parish priest's mistress were the most powerful people in the 19th century Filipino municipality. The magistrate and the parish priest, as officials, enjoyed powers based on their official designation, while their assistants, who dealt with the local population, enjoyed powers beyond their official designation. The priest's mistress and children enjoyed power on the basis of family connections. Local policemen, as members of the guardia civil, usurped the authority of the local magistrate.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1992
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Growth of non-agricultural economic activities in Java in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
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A number of Javenese participated in the economic changeover in rural Java during the middle decades of the 19th century, contrary to the belief that the indigenous population lived solely as peasants. Because peasant households were required from the 1830s on to devote a larger part of their labor to the production of commercial crops, their growing income could be used to buy material goods which increased the need for non-agricultural goods to be produced. Some villagers, who were not landowning peasants, took up non-agricultural occupations.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1996
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Indian labor immigration and British labor policy in nineteenth-century Ceylon
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The article discusses on why labor migration, between South India and Ceylon, that was important to the efficient functioning of coffee plantation economy received no government attention in the nineteenth century is illustrated.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2007
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