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The transition to a colonial economy : = weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The transition to a colonial economy :/ Prasannan Parthasarathi.
Reminder of title:	weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /
Author:	Parthasarathi, Prasannan,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Industries - History - 18th century. - India, South -
Subject:	India, South - Economic conditions - 18th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497414
ISBN:	9780511497414 (ebook)

The transition to a colonial economy : = weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /
Parthasarathi, Prasannan,

The transition to a colonial economy :weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /Prasannan Parthasarathi. - 1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ;7. - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society. ;11..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Weavers and merchants 1720-1760 --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511497414 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800194
Industries
--History--India, South--18th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800193
India, South
--Economic conditions--18th century.

LC Class. No.: HC437.S8 / P37 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 330.954/029

The transition to a colonial economy : = weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /
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