Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Issue 2002; Issue 2010This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the Company to transform India into a quiescent and profitable colony. Finally it deals with changes in India's ecology, social organization, and ideologies in the early nineteenth century, and the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the Rebellion of 1857. |
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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 |
| 212 | |
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| Title | Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Issue 2002; Issue 2010 History e-book project Volume 1 of Indian states and the transition to colonialism The New Cambridge History of India Volume 1 of The New Cambridge history of India: II, Indian states and the transition to colonialism |
| Author | Christopher Alan Bayly |
| Editor | Christopher Alan Bayly |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0521386500, 9780521386500 |
| Length | 230 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General History / Asia / India & South Asia History / Europe / Great Britain History / World Social Science / Sociology / General |
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