The Transition to a Colonial Economy
Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720 1800
According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the p…
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Weitere Autoren: Bayly, Christopher Alan (Hrsg.) / Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03310-7
- EAN: 9780521033107
- Produktnummer: 2803713
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 270 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 270
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