India, Modernity and the Great Divergence : Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C. )
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Problem of Quotation and Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction -- 0.1) Preliminary Remarks --...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden : BRILL,
2017
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Library of Economic History Ser
v.8 Library of economic history volume 8 |
| Schlagworte: | Social change--India--History Social change Economic development Social change ; India ; History Economic development ; India ; History Karnataka (India) ; Civilization Gujarat (India) ; Civilization India ; Civilization ; European influences India ; Civilization ; 1200-1765 India ; Civilization ; 1765-1947 mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (701 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Problem of Quotation and Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction -- 0.1) Preliminary Remarks -- 0.2) Purpose of Study -- 0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources -- 0.4) Orientalism -- 0.5) Eurocentrism -- 0.6) Methodology -- 0.7) Modes of Production -- 0.8) Modernity -- 0.9) 'Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous' -- 0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization -- 0.11) Prospect -- 1 The Transitional State of India's History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- 1.1) Introduction -- 1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe -- 1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System -- 1.4) Technology -- 1.5) Documents and Manuscripts -- 1.6) Science and Learning -- 1.7) Printing -- 1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a 'Public Sphere' -- 1.9) King Serfoji II -- 1.10) Conclusion -- 2 Mysore -- 2.1) Preliminary Remarks -- 2.2) Economy -- 2.2.1) Introduction -- 2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations -- 2.2.3) Living Conditions -- 2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism -- 2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology -- 2.2.6) Property Rights -- 2.3) Administration -- 2.3.1) Introduction -- 2.3.2) Tipu's Administration -- 2.3.3) Revenues -- 2.3.4) Conclusion -- 2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure -- 2.4.1) Conclusion -- 2.5) Military Establishment -- 2.5.1) Introduction -- 2.5.2) Cavalry -- 2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery -- 2.5.4) Rocket Technology -- 2.5.5) Fortification -- 2.5.6) Marine -- 2.5.7) Conclusion -- 2.6) Education -- 2.6.1) Conclusion -- 2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization -- 2.7.1) Introduction 2.7.2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire -- 2.7.3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European Powers -- 2.7.4) Conclusion -- 2.8) Political Structure - towards the Establishment of an Islamic Theocracy -- 2.8.1) Conclusion -- 2.9) Resistance and the British Invasion -- 2.9.1) Conclusion -- 2.10) General Conclusion -- 3 Gujarat -- 3.1) Preliminary Remarks -- 3.2) Economy -- 3.2.1) Introduction -- 3.2.2) Agriculture -- 3.2.3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities -- 3.2.4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the 17th and 18th Centuries -- 3.2.5) Manufacture and Technology -- 3.3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure -- 3.3.1) Conclusion -- 3.4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and Regulations -- 3.4.1) Conclusion -- 3.5) Legal Practice - Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and Regulations -- 3.5.1) Conclusion -- 3.6) The Status of Women -- 3.6.1) Conclusion -- 3.7) The Impact of Caste and Religion -- 3.7.1) Conclusion -- 3.8) Education -- 3.8.1) Conclusion -- 3.9) Political Structure -- 3.9.1) General Structures of Power -- 3.9.2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company's Consolidation of Power -- 3.9.3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare and Piracy -- 3.10) Early Impact of British Rule -- 3.10.1) Conclusion -- 3.11) General Conclusion -- 4 Epilogue - Transition from Middle to Late Modernity -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (701 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004330795 9004330798 9789004330788 900433078X |