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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire

Part of The New Cambridge History of India

Author: C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge

Date Published: July 1990
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521386500

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This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It 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. Finally it deals with changes in India's ecology, social organization, and ideologies in the early nineteenth century, and the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the Rebellion of 1857.
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"The entire Cambridge series, judging from the quality of these two examples, will prove essential reading for some time to come, for both specialists in Indian history and scholars in related fields. Both authors have clearly demonstated their control over the state of scholarship in their respective areas. These two authors, and the series editors as well, are to be commended for a fine start to what should prove to be a major contribution to the study of Indian history." Michael H. Fisher, Public Affairs
"Bayly packs a wealth of information and comment into the limited compass of his book, and many distinct strands of interest find a place." V.G. Kiernan, Victorian Studies
"C.A. Bayly, among the most brilliant younger scholars in the field, has produced a book of wonderful intricacy and sophistication. Broad in scope and grand in conception, his study is a masterly synthesis of recent scholarship and amazingly complex interpretations of India's past." American Historical Review
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Product details
- Date Published: July 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386500
- length: 246 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.368kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 5 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of maps
General editor's preface
Preface
Introduction
1. India in the eighteenth century: the formation of states and social groups
2. Indian capital and the emergence of colonial society
3. The crisis of the Indian state, 1780–1820
4. The consolidation and failure of the East India Company's state, 1818–57
5. Peasant and Brahmin: consolidating 'traditional' society
6. Rebellion and reconstruction
Conclusion: the first age of colonialism in India
Glossary of Indian terms
Bibliography
Index.
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C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge