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century. This is an informative contrast with the numerous public arenas involving Britons and their institutions—law courts, Western schools, agricultural fetes—in which taluqdars appeared absurd. Metcalf does not make enough of this contrast, or dualism or contradiction, with which his landlord subjects perplex us. That is, in their interaction with their British patrons, these taluqdars or zamindars are seen by the British, whose records we use, as pitiful, at best, but more often as vile, although useful, instruments of British power. Looked at from the local base of their authority, these landlords are seen as respectable leaders preserving a valued way of life. On balance, this large book is disappointing. It does not advance our general understanding of India under mature colonial domination and therefore can scarcely deepen, or disturb, our even more general notions about colonialism as a phenomenon.