210 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for the historiography.
In the years between the death of the emperor Aurangzeb (1707) and the Great Rebellion (1857), the Mughal Empire and the... Read more
- Introduction 2. State Formation 3. State Consolidation 4. The Agrarian Order 5. Conditions of Business 6. Towns 7. Levels of Living 8. The Rebellion of 1857 9. Conclusion
Biography
Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. He has published extensively on South Asian history and development and has taught courses on South Asia and Global History. His recent books include An Economic History of Colonialism (with Leigh Gardner, 2020), Crafts and Capitalism (Routledge, 2019) and A New Economic History of Colonial India (co-edited with Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Anand V. Swamy, Routledge, 2015).
