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Title: INDIAN SOCIETY AND THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
By: C. A. Bayly, Gordon Johnson, C. A. Bayly
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521386500
ISBN 13: 9780521386500
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 26 July, 1990
Series: The New Cambridge History of India No. 2
Pages: 246
Description: This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
Synopsis: The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the 'decline of the Moghuls' and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East Indian Company's trade and urban settlements. Professor Bayly considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the Company to transform India into a quiescent and profitable colony. Later chapters deal with changes in India's ecology, social organisation and ideologies in the nineteenth century, and analyse the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the rebellion of 1857.
Illustrations: 1 b/w illus. 5 maps
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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