This essay considers—as an integrated space of discursive practices—disputes over proprietary titles in an obscure locality, debates over the authentic “Indian” proprietary form in British India, and a conceptual recasting of political-economic categories in Britain, over the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that “property” was produced by this space as a marker of political power/sovereignty, its “indigenous/Indian” form being construed as a field of dispersed, contested, and plural rights. Positing this conceptualization of property as immanent in governance and political economy, this essay questions the dominant historiographic consensus that indigenous social forces aborted all attempts of the Company’s government to introduce a coherent property regime.

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财产问题：英属印度的当地历史和政治经济范畴

本文认为，作为话语实践的综合空间，在一个晦涩的地方，有关所有权的争议，关于英属印度正宗的“印度”专有形式的辩论以及在上半年对英国政治经济类别的概念性重铸十九世纪。它认为，“财产”是由这个空间产生的，是政治权力/主权的标志，它的“土著/印度”形式被解释为一个分散的，有争议的和多元化的权利领域。本文认为，财产概念是治理和政治经济学中必不可少的，它质疑主流的史学共识，即土著社会力量中止了公司政府采用统一财产制度的所有尝试。