Indian Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author: V. P. S. Raghuvanshi
Publisher: New Delhi : Associated Publishing House
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13:
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Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Author: Robert Travers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1139464167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
The Eighteenth Century in India
Author: Seema Alavi
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Book Will Make A Useful Companion For Historians Of Late Medieval And Modern India, Economists, Sociologists, And The Informed General Reader.
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Author: C. A. Bayly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521386500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Author: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521798426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 260
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Author: C.A. Bayly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 019908873X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the upheavals in the eighteenth century that paved the way for the incoming British. He shows how the colonial enterprise was built on an existing resilient network of towns, rural bazaars, and merchant communities; and how in turn, colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. This edition comes with a new introduction.
Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century North India
Author: Tabir Kalam
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789380607399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century Northern India contends that the 'decline' in the political scenario of eighteenth century India did not imply an all-round decay and stagnation of society, especially in its religious and cultural realms. The emergence of regional forces, following the disintegration of the Mughal empire, greatly aided the promotion of regional centres which provided the grounds for a religious and cultural efflorescence. Shifting the focus away from the oft-examined political and economic aspects of the eighteenth century transition, the book studies a wide array of primary sources in Persian and in Urdu, to instead bring the study of intellectual and cultural trends to the centre-stage of historiography. It has brought into prominence the vibrant religious-intellectual outpouring, the Shia-Sunni polemics, educational innovations, growth and spread of Urdu and its entanglement with regional sensibilities and regional networks of patronage.
Land and Sovereignty in India
Author: André Wink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-03
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521051804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This original contribution to Indian history, focusing on contemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set of concepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically it examines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or 'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It traces the expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policy of 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslim expansion throughout its history. The book gives an interesting perspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British period as well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its most important successor polity, on its capacity for change and development in the intermediate sections of society, the land-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on the fiscal system.
Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
