Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India: Bihar: 1733-1820BRILL, 07/08/2023 - 288 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
The Region the Polity the Commercial System and Cultural Antecedents | 13 |
Structure Working and Forms of Control | 38 |
III The Politics of Big Business | 65 |
IV Plassey and Its Aftermath | 101 |
V Rural Trade and Early British Rule | 128 |
VI Big Business in a New Environment | 151 |
VII The Banking Business | 178 |
VIII Business Politics and Society | 205 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Appendices | 241 |
Select Glossary | 254 |
Select Bibliography | 256 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ABC ABC ABC administration Ali Vardi Khan Amirtis April areas aristocracy Arzee Awadh Azimabadi Baftas baladiyas bankers banking firms Behar and Patna Benaras Bengal and Bihar beparis Bhagalpur Bhagalpur District Bihar Board of Revenue British Calcutta centers chapter Chaudhuri city of Patna cloth coins collectors commodities company's government cons cotton textiles countryside Delhi district Dutch East India Company Economic eighteenth century elite enclosure English company European companies Ghulam Hussain gomastahs grain gunges haats History of Bengal Ibid important Indian merchants indigenous Jagat Seth jagir jagirdars Kalyan Singh Khan Khwaja Wajeed land late eighteenth letter mahajans Mahmoodies manufacture Maratha masnavi Meer Afzal Meer Ashraf Mughal Murshidabad nawab Number officials opium paikars parganas Patna darbar piece-goods Plassey Purnea Raja Ramchandra Pandit region rural trade saltpeter saltpeter trade Saran Sarkar Seir Mutaqherin Shahabad shahr-i-ashob shroffs Shujauddin siccas Singh social subah Tabatabai undated weavers zamindars