Indian Society and the Making of the British EmpireThis volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
India in the eighteenth century The formation of states and social groups | 7 |
Indian capital and the emergence of colonial society | 45 |
The crisis of the Indian state 17801820 | 79 |
The consolidation and failure of the East India Companys state 181857 | 106 |
Peasant and Brahmin consolidating traditional society | 136 |
Rebellion and reconstitution | 169 |
The first age of colonialism in India | 200 |
Glossary of Indian terms | 207 |
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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Volume 1 Christopher Alan Bayly,C. A. Bayly No preview available - 1988 |
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