[PDF] Money And Markets From Pre Colonial To Colonial India eBook

Author : Anirban Biswas
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Money
ISBN : 9788189833206

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This Book Is A Study Of The Pre-Colonial And Transitional Phase Of India'S Monetary And Commerical History, With Special Reference To Bengal, And Brings Into Focus The Changes That Were Brought About By The Colonial Rule. It Emphasises That There Were Considerable Elements Of Conflict In The Process Of Transition, The Author Argues, Is The Disappearance Of The Humble Currency Media And The Eclipse Of The Autonomy Of The Rural Economy, Reasons For Which Need To Be Carefully Examined.

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Economic historians of pre-colonial South Asia have always seen a close relationship between monetarization and commercialization--the growing use of money, and the growing orientation towards the market of procedures. The essays collected in this volume range in their focus from medieval Tamilnadu under the Colas, to Maharashtra in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. They demonstrate that a great deal of regional variation exists in terms of monetary history, and that much work needs to be done before a generalization can be made for all of medieval and early modern India.

Author : Latika Chaudhary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317674332

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A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the standard of living, the labour market and the aftermath of the Partition. It also addresses how education and work changed, and provides a rethinking of traditional topics including de-industrialization, industrialization, railways, balance of payments, and the East India Company. Written in an accessible way, the contributors – all leading experts in their fields – firmly place Indian history in the context of world history. An up-to-date critical survey and novel resource on Indian Economic History, this book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Economic History, Indian and South Asian Studies, Economics and Comparative and Global History.

Author : Om Prakash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521257589

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European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those of private European traders, this book considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern world economy as a result of these interactions. The book also describes how this essentially market-determined commercial encounter changed in the latter half of the eighteenth century as the colonial relationship between Britain and the subcontinent was established. By bringing together and examining the existing literature, the author provides a fascinating overview of the impact of European trade on the pre-modern Indian economy which will be of value to students of Indian, European and colonial history.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425267

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A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

Author : Prasannan Parthasarathi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521570428

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According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.

Author : Ewout Frankema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108494269

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How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.

Author : Andrew Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009064193

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How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

Author : B. R. Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107021189

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A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.