Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India: Bihar: 1733-1820
Chatterjee, Kumkum
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Book ID : 45200
ISBN-10 : 93-6080-644-7 / 9360806447
ISBN-13 : 978-93-6080-644-6 / 9789360806446
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2025
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm. 386p.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This monograph deals with the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India – a period during which Eastern India (and Bihar) experienced the transition to British colonial rule. As a point of departure from existing scholarly literature that usually studies this transition in material terms, this volume uses an approach that takes into account the configuration of social relations and political connections within which, it argues, commercial activity was embedded. Using merchants and bankers as its subjects, this book deals with the structure of trade and banking, the position of merchants in the cultural order and the role of the state in perpetuating this order. About the Author Kumkum Chatterjee, Ph.D. (1989) in History, Calcutta University, is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. The author of several journal articles, she has a broad research interest in the social and economic history of early modern India.
