By David T. Garrett
The Indian the Aristocracy of the Andes--largely descended from the Inca monarchs and different pre-conquest lords--occupied an important fiscal and political place in overdue colonial Andean society, a place generally permitted as valid till the T?pac Amaru uprising. This quantity lines the historical past of this overdue colonial elite and examines the pre-conquest and colonial foundations in their privilege and authority. It brings to gentle the association and the ideology of the Indian the Aristocracy within the bishopric of Cusco within the many years sooner than the uprising, and makes use of this the Aristocracy as a lens in which to check the interior association and rigidity of overdue colonial Indian groups.
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The average Cusco encomienda paid about 300 pesos annually in the late 1600s. D. , University of Texas, Austin, 1979), pp. 158–61. 48 Throughout this work, I use “pueblo” to mean “pueblo de indios,” or “reducci´on”: the villages or towns founded as part of the Toledan reductions that became the basic unit of indigenous society, at least as it appears in the archival record. 49 Insofar as they did not violate natural law, the laws of indigenous American societies remained valid and the refusal to recognize them constituted tyranny.
163. 65 Angles Vargas, Historia, I, 44–57. 66 Temple Dunbar “Don Carlos Inca,” p. 170–7. 67 Pardo, El imperio, pp. 137–8. 69 Hundreds of Inca royals and nobles remained in Cusco, but without the focal point of a recognized successor. As a result the Incas were reworked into a regional noble caste that dominated the Indian pueblos in the area of the Inca heartland, but among whom there was no clear hierarchy or authority binding these communities into a larger, recognized polity. This disintegration of the Incas’ dominion had its parallel throughout the ˜ highlands.
59 Spalding, Huarochir´ı, p. 214. xml 28 CUNY040B/Garrett September 8, 2005 14:57 Indian Elites and the Colonial Order considerably from its preconquest forebear. 61 However, ayllu organization was not the object of specific legislation, allowing great variety. 62 Moreover, rights of possession were largely customary. Ayllus were small enough to be wiped out in an epidemic, emptied by emigration, or absorbed by a larger, neighboring ayllu; in such cases the lands could be absorbed by other ayllus, or declared vacant and sold by the crown.