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Indian society and the making of the British Empire

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 2.1

Edited by C.A. Bayly

Publication Date 1988

Hardback ISBN-10
0521250927

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521250924

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521250924

Overview

The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's trasition 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.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

India in the eighteenth century: the formation of states and social groups

Indian capital and the emergence of colonial society

The crisis of the Indian state, 1780–1820

The consolidation and failure of the East India Company's state, 1818–57

Peasant and Brahmin: consolidating ‘traditional’ society

Rebellion and reconstruction

Conclusion: the first age of colonialism in India

Glossary of indian terms

Bibliographical essay

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