India, modernity and the great divergence : Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
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India, modernity and the great divergence : Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
（Library of economic history / general editors, Peer Vries, Regina Grafe, v. 8）
Brill, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-645) and index
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India, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India's transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ... xiii
Problem of Quotation and Transliteration ... xvi
List of Illustrations ... xvii
List of Abbreviations ... xvii
Glossary ... xx
Maps ... xxvi
Introduction ... 1
0.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 1
0.2) Purpose of Study ... 2
0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11
0.4) Orientalism ... 11
0.5) Eurocentrism ... 13
0.6) Methodology ... 14
0.7) Modes of Production ... 16
0.8) Modernity ... 22
0.9) 'Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous' ... 31
0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization ... 32
0.11) Prospect ... 61
1 The Transitional State of India's History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 66
1.1) Introduction ... 66
1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-a-vis Europe ... 69
1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System ... 79
1.4) Technology ... 84
1.5) Documents and Manuscripts ... 98
1.6) Science and Learning ... 100
1.7) Printing ... 105
1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a 'Public Sphere' ... 107
1.9) King Serfoji II ... 111
1.10) Conclusion ... 112
2 Mysore ... 115
2.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 115
2.2) Economy ... 116
2.2.1) Introduction ... 116
2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations ... 130
2.2.3) Living Conditions ... 165
2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism ... 170
2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 184
2.2.6) Property Rights ... 212
2.3) Administration ... 220
2.3.1) Introduction ... 220
2.3.2) Tipu's Administration ... 223
2.3.3) Revenues ... 227
2.3.4) Conclusion ... 229
2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 230
2.4.1) Conclusion ... 236
2.5) Military Establishment ... 239
2.5.1) Introduction ... 239
2.5.2) Cavalry ... 244
2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery ... 247
2.5.4) Rocket Technology ... 251
2.5.5) Fortification ... 255
2.5.6) Marine ... 256
2.5.7) Conclusion ... 272
2.6) Education ... 279
2.6.1) Conclusion ... 285
2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization ... 285
2.7.1) Introduction ... 285
2.7.2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire ... 289
2.7.3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European Powers ... 299
2.7.4) Conclusion ... 307
2.8) Political Structure - towards the Establishment of an Islamic Theocracy ... 308
2.8.1) Conclusion ... 334
2.9) Resistance and the British Invasion ... 336
2.9.1) Conclusion ... 349
2.10) General Conclusion ... 350
3 Gujarat ... 361
3.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 361
3.2) Economy ... 363
3.2.1) Introduction ... 363
3.2.2) Agriculture ... 380
3.2.3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities ... 391
3.2.4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 401
3.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 454
3.3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 476
3.3.1) Conclusion ... 480
3.4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and Regulations ... 481
3.4.1) Conclusion ... 492
3.5) Legal Practice - Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and Regulations ... 493
3.5.1) Conclusion ... 501
3.6) The Status of Women ... 502
3.6.1) Conclusion ... 510
3.7) The Impact of Caste and Religion ... 510
3.7.1) Conclusion ... 515
3.8) Education ... 515
3.8.1) Conclusion ... 521
3.9) Political Structure ... 522
3.9.1) General Structures of Power ... 522
3.9.2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company's Consolidation of Power ... 527
3.9.3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare and Piracy ... 530
3.10) Early Impact of British Rule ... 545
3.10.1) Conclusion ... 552
3.11) General Conclusion ... 553
4 Epilogue - Transition from Middle to Late Modernity ... 557
Appendix ... 577
Bibliography ... 579
Index of Persons ... 646
Index of Places ... 653
Index of Subjects ... 656
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