Merchants Markets And The State In Early Modern India

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles, originally published in the Indian economic and social history review.

Author : Chatterjee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644741
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India written by Chatterjee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that takes into account the configuration of social relations and political connections within which, it argues, commercial activity was embedded. Using merchants and bankers as its subjects, this book deals with the structure of trade and banking, the position of merchants in the cultural order and the role of the state in perpetuating this order.

Author : Kumkum Chatterjee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004103030
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Politics, and Society in Early Modern India written by Kumkum Chatterjee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides important new perspectives on the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India and the transition to British colonial rule.

Author : Anand A. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520919969
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bazaar India written by Anand A. Yang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer; rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book.

Author : Stephen Frederic Dale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525978
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 written by Stephen Frederic Dale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable 1994 work of comparative economic history, Stephen Dale studies the activities and economic significance of the Indian mercantile communities which traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author uses Russian sources, hitherto largely ignored, to show that these merchants represented part of the hegemonic trade diaspora of the Indian world economy, thus challenging the conventional interpretation of world economic history that European merchants overwhelmed their Asian counterparts in the early modern era. The book not only demonstrates the vitality of Indian mercantile capitalism, but also offers a unique insight into the social characteristics of an Indian expatriate trading community in the Volga-Caspian port of Astrakhan.

Author : Sushil Chaudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782735107865
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Companies, and Trade written by Sushil Chaudhury and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574648
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Merchant Empires written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-13 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.

Author : Madeleine Zelin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231135962
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchants of Zigong written by Madeleine Zelin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline in the late 1930s, salt production in Zigong was one of the largest and only indigenous large-scale industries in China. Madeleine Zelin's history details the novel ways in which Zigong merchants mobilized capital through financial-industrial networks and spurred growth by developing new technologies, capturing markets, and building integrated business organizations. She provides new insight into the forces and institutions that shaped Chinese economic and social development (independent of Western or Japanese influence) and challenges long-held beliefs that social structure, state extraction, the absence of modern banking, and cultural bias against business precluded industrial development in China.

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918109
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, 1450–1800 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries. This collection is unique in essaying a truly global coverage of mercantile activities, from the Wangara of the Central Sudan, Mississippi and Huron Indians, to the role of the Jews, the Muslim merchants of Anatolia, to the social structure of the mercantile classes in early modern England. The histories of merchant communities are not their histories alone, but also the histories of assumptions concerning their contexts. From the comparative perspective adopted here, it emerges that in markets where Western European merchants vied for place with competitors from the Near East, South Asia or East Asia, they were very often unsuccessful.

Author : Anirban Biswas
Publisher : Aakar Books
ISBN 13 : 9788189833206
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Markets from Pre-colonial to Colonial India written by Anirban Biswas and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Study Of The Pre-Colonial And Transitional Phase Of India'S Monetary And Commerical History, With Special Reference To Bengal, And Brings Into Focus The Changes That Were Brought About By The Colonial Rule. It Emphasises That There Were Considerable Elements Of Conflict In The Process Of Transition, The Author Argues, Is The Disappearance Of The Humble Currency Media And The Eclipse Of The Autonomy Of The Rural Economy, Reasons For Which Need To Be Carefully Examined.