Merchants, politics, and society in early modern India : Bihar, 1733-1820 / by Kumkum Chatterjee.
Merchants, politics, and society in early modern India : Bihar, 1733-1820 / by Kumkum Chatterjee.
Merchants, politics, and society in early modern India : Bihar, 1733-1820 / by Kumkum Chatterjee.
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Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N380.1095412/1
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English
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Physical content
x, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
I. The Setting: The Region, the Polity, the Commercial System and Cultural Antecedents -- II. Rural Trade: Structure, Working and Forms of Control -- III. The Politics of Big Business -- IV. Plassey and Its Aftermath -- V. Rural Trade and Early British Rule -- VI. Big Business in a New Environment -...
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Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.
Date Published
1996.
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Summary
This monograph deals with the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India - a period during which Eastern India (and Bihar) experienced the transition to British colonial rule. As a point of departure from existing scholarly literature that usually studies this transition in material terms. This volume uses an approach...
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Merchants, politics, and society in early modern India : Bihar, 1733-1820 / by Kumkum Chatterjee.
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Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 10.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-265) and index.
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N380.1095412/1
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9004103031 (cloth : alk. paper)
9789004103030 (cloth : alk. paper)
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380.109541209033
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991005769949702626
