Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in hard covers, Dr Bayly's authoritative study traces the evolution of North Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of mature Victorian empire following the 'mutiny' of 1857. The first section of the book looks at the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the 'Time of Troubles' in the eighteenth century. The second section shows how the incoming British, were themselves constrained to build their new empire on this 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. The third section focuses on the social history of the towns under early colonial rule and includes an analysis of the culture and business methods of the Indian merchant family. It is based in part on the private records and histories of the business people themselves.
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C. A. Bayly, Professor in Modern Indian History, University of Cambridge.
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Fairly recently the historiography of eighteenth-century India resembled that of the European Dark Ages before Henri Pirenne or the Thirty Years' War before the intervention of the economic historians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
qasbah towns, merchant family firm, hundi transactions, lineage centres, bazaar duties, specialist cultivators, agrarian patronage, agrarian dependence, consuming aristocracies, creditable merchants, fiscal lords, rural bazaars, bulking points, service gentry, intermediate economy, revenue entrepreneurs, privileged tenure, less stable areas, aristocratic consumption, peasant family farm, new magnates, agricultural stability, town duties, indigenous banking, liquor distillers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East India Company, North-Western Provinces, Mirzapur Judi, Nawab of Awadh, Commr Agra, Kashmiri Mull, Mirzapur Judl, Home Misc, Muhammad Khan, United Provinces, Faiz Baksh, Jonathan Duncan, Almas Ali Khan, Grand Trunk Road, Harish Chandra, Modern Asian Studies, Oudh Gazetteer, Sayyid Ahmed, South Asia, Hafiz Rehmat Khan, Past Famines, Arjunji Nathji, Delhi Gazette, Delhi Residency, Firangi Mahal New!
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Fairly recently the historiography of eighteenth-century India resembled that of the European Dark Ages before Henri Pirenne or the Thirty Years' War before the intervention of the economic historians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
qasbah towns, merchant family firm, hundi transactions, lineage centres, bazaar duties, specialist cultivators, agrarian patronage, agrarian dependence, consuming aristocracies, creditable merchants, fiscal lords, rural bazaars, bulking points, service gentry, intermediate economy, revenue entrepreneurs, privileged tenure, less stable areas, aristocratic consumption, peasant family farm, new magnates, agricultural stability, town duties, indigenous banking, liquor distillers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East India Company, North-Western Provinces, Mirzapur Judi, Nawab of Awadh, Commr Agra, Kashmiri Mull, Mirzapur Judl, Home Misc, Muhammad Khan, United Provinces, Faiz Baksh, Jonathan Duncan, Almas Ali Khan, Grand Trunk Road, Harish Chandra, Modern Asian Studies, Oudh Gazetteer, Sayyid Ahmed, South Asia, Hafiz Rehmat Khan, Past Famines, Arjunji Nathji, Delhi Gazette, Delhi Residency, Firangi Mahal New!
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