Download or read book Money and Markets from Pre colonial to Colonial India written by Anirban Biswas and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Study Of The Pre-Colonial And Transitional Phase Of India'S Monetary And Commerical History, With Special Reference To Bengal, And Brings Into Focus The Changes That Were Brought About By The Colonial Rule. It Emphasises That There Were Considerable Elements Of Conflict In The Process Of Transition, The Author Argues, Is The Disappearance Of The Humble Currency Media And The Eclipse Of The Autonomy Of The Rural Economy, Reasons For Which Need To Be Carefully Examined.
Download or read book The Transition to a Colonial Economy written by Prasannan Parthasarathi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.
Download or read book Money Use in Late Pre colonial India and the International Trade in Currency Media written by Frank Perlin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Economic History of Colonial India written by Latika Chaudhary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the standard of living, the labour market and the aftermath of the Partition. It also addresses how education and work changed, and provides a rethinking of traditional topics including de-industrialization, industrialization, railways, balance of payments, and the East India Company. Written in an accessible way, the contributors – all leading experts in their fields – firmly place Indian history in the context of world history. An up-to-date critical survey and novel resource on Indian Economic History, this book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Economic History, Indian and South Asian Studies, Economics and Comparative and Global History.
Download or read book Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money written by Bin Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century. By focusing on cowrie money in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies, Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections, networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective, Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local, regional, transregional and global themes.
Download or read book Peasant History of Late Pre colonial and Colonial India written by B. B. Chaudhuri and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Money and the Morality of Exchange written by Jonathan P. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.
Download or read book Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa c 1850 1960 written by Ewout Frankema and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.
Download or read book European Commercial Enterprise in Pre Colonial India written by Om Prakash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those of private European traders, this book considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern world economy as a result of these interactions. The book also describes how this essentially market-determined commercial encounter changed in the latter half of the eighteenth century as the colonial relationship between Britain and the subcontinent was established. By bringing together and examining the existing literature, the author provides a fascinating overview of the impact of European trade on the pre-modern Indian economy which will be of value to students of Indian, European and colonial history.
Download or read book Goyal s Target CUET UG 2023 Section II Sociology written by GBP Editorial and published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goyal's Target CUET (UG) 2022 Section II - Sociology (Chapter-wise study notes, Chapter-wise MCQs and with 3 Sample Papers) Goyal's Target CUET 2023 Books will help you to score 90% plus in CUET (UG) 2023 Exam conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to all the Central Universities for the academic session 2023-24. Salient Features of Goyal's Target CUET (UG) 2023 Books For CUET(UG) to be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to all the Central Universities Strictly according to the latest syllabus released by NTA CUET (UG) Examination Paper (Solved)–2022 Chapter-wise study notes to enable quick revision and systematic flow of concepts Chapter-wise MCQs based on Syllabus released by NTA and books published by NCERT Chapter-wise MCQs based on input text Three Practice Papers (with Answers) as per the guidelines issued by NTA
Download or read book NTA CUET UG 2022 Section 2 Domain Humanities written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) in three sections for admission into Under Graduate programs for all Central Universities like DU, JNU, JMI, AMU, etc. Set your preparation in motion with the newly launched “NTA CUET (UG) Section II Domain (Humanities)”, designed to help the students aspiring for admission into the Central Universities. Serving as a study guide, the book constitutes all the theories according to the syllabus directed by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Apart from this, it also focuses on the practice part with a good number of questions. Prepared strictly in line with the prescribed format, this book ensures success in the exam. This book possesses: 1. Complete coverage of syllabus 2. Designed as per the latest prescribed format 3. Divided into 4 sections 4. 2 practice sets in each section for thorough revision Table of Contents History, Geography, Political science, Sociology, Psychology, Home Science, Practice Sets
Download or read book The Indian Trade at the Asian Frontier written by S. Jeyaseela Stephen and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides rich insights into workings of the Indian mind arguing that Indian merchants in the medieval and the early modern period were in no way inferior to other traders and Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen drawing on a wide range of sources. This book throws a new light on growth and development of Asian Trade on Sea and Land unearthing new evidence from Danish and Russian sources.
Download or read book Karl Polanyi written by Gareth Dale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century "market fundamentalism" it reads as a warning to our own neoliberal age, and is widely touted as a prophetic guidebook for those who aspire to understand the causes and dynamics of global economic turbulence at the end of the 2000s. Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market is the first comprehensive introduction to Polanyi's ideas and legacy. It assesses not only the texts for which he is famous – prepared during his spells in American academia – but also his journalistic articles written in his first exile in Vienna, and lectures and pamphlets from his second exile, in Britain. It provides a detailed critical analysis of The Great Transformation, but also surveys Polanyi’s seminal writings in economic anthropology, the economic history of ancient and archaic societies, and political and economic theory. Its primary source base includes interviews with Polanyi's daughter, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, as well as the entire compass of his own published and unpublished writings in English and German. This engaging and accessible introduction to Polanyi's thinking will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, providing a refreshing perspective on the roots of our current economic crisis.
Download or read book Law and Commerce in Pre Industrial Societies written by Barry Hawk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and informal institutions were developed to secure persons and property, resolve commercial disputes, raise capital and share risk, promote fair dealing, regulate agents and gather market information. Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies examines commerce, its participants and these institutions through the lens of nine pre-industrial societies from hunter/gatherers to 18th century Qing merchants.
Download or read book The Economy of Modern India written by B. R. Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique examination of the development of the modern Indian economy over the past 150 years.
Download or read book Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India written by Norbert Peabody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating 2003 study of the precolonial kingdom of Kota through its historical documents.
Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre colonial Eastern India written by Asha Shukla Choubey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
