1st Edition

India and the Early Modern World

By Jagjeet Lally Copyright 2024
562 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

562 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

562 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context. This book explores questions critical to our understanding of early modern India. How, for instance, were Indians’ religious beliefs, their ways of life, and the horizons of their learning changing over this... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Belief  3. Ideology  4. Urbanism  5. Capitalism  6. Violence  7. The State  8. Kingship  9. Vernacularisation  10. Knowledge  11. Conclusion

Biography

Jagjeet Lally is Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India at University College London, where he is also Co-Director of the UCL Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. He was educated at Oxford, the London School of Economics, and then at Cambridge, where he was also a junior research fellow. His prize-winning first book is India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World (2021).