The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India

The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India
Title The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Pius Malekandathil
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Total Pages 481
Release 2016-09-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351997467

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This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical processes saw India rebuilt and reshaped during late medieval times after a long age of relative ‘stagnation’, ‘isolation’ and ‘backwardness’. The various papers deal with such themes including interconnectedness between Africa and India, trade and urbanity in Golconda, the changing meanings of urbanization in Bengal, commercial and cultural contact between Aceh and India, changing techniques of warfare, representation of early modern rulers of India in contemporary European paintings, the impact of the Indian Ocean on the foreign policies of the Mughals, the meanings of piracy, labour process in the textile sector, Indo-Ottoman trade, Maratha-French relations, Bible translations and religious polemics, weapon making and the uses of elephants. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern Indian history in general and those working on aspects of connected histories in particular.

The Cultures of History in Early Modern India

The Cultures of History in Early Modern India
Title The Cultures of History in Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Kumkum Chatterjee
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages
Release 2009-02-11
Genre History
ISBN 0199088012

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This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety and politically sensitive character of a range of oral and textual narratives. Kumkum Chatterjee also makes a significant contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of early modern India by exploring interactions between regional, vernacular cultures on the one hand and the Islamicate, Persianized culture of the Mughal Empire on the other. Strongly grounded in primary sources, The Cultures of History in Early Modern India re-examines the concepts of authority, evidence and method in early modern historiography. It also discusses the debates surrounding the culture of history writing in India.

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India
Title Religious Cultures in Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Rosalind O'Hanlon
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 293
Release 2014-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 1317982878

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Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of the state. Royal and merchant patronage stimulated the growth of new classes of mobile intellectuals deeply committed to the reappraisal of many aspects of religious law and doctrine. Supra-regional institutions and networks of many other kinds - sect-based religious maths, pilgrimage centres and their guardians, sants and sufi orders - flourished, offering greater mobility to wider communities of the pious. This was also a period of growing vigour in the development of vernacular religious literatures of different kinds, and often of new genres blending elements of older devotional, juridical and historical literatures. Oral and manuscript literatures too gained more rapid circulation, although the meaning and canonical status of texts frequently changed as they circulated more widely and reached larger lay audiences. Through explorations of these developments, the essays in this collection make a distinctive contribution to a critical formative period in the making of India’s modern religious cultures. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India

Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India
Title Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Christopher Minkowski
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 194
Release 2017
Genre India
ISBN 9781138083059

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The essays in this volume explore the ways in which individual scholars, intellectuals and men of religion negotiated the boundaries between discipline, sect, lineage and community as they moved through different social milieux in early modern India: courtly centres, temples, sectarian monasteries, the pandit assemblies of the cosmopolitan city of Banaras and of lesser religious centres in India's regions. This book was a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

An Economic History of Early Modern India

An Economic History of Early Modern India
Title An Economic History of Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Tirthankar Roy
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 268
Release 2013-07-18
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1135047863

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The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to a deeper understanding of the long-run patterns of economic change in India. Momentous changes occurred in business and politics in India during the eighteenth century - the expansion of trade with Europe and the collapse of the Mughal Empire, resulting in the formation of a number of independent states. This book analyses how these two forces were interrelated, and how they went on to change livelihoods and material wellbeing in the region. Using detailed studies of markets, institutions, rural and urban livelihoods, and the standard of living, it develops a new perspective on the history of eighteenth century India, one that places business at the centre, rather than the transition to colonial rule. This book is the first systematic account of the economic history of early modern India, and an essential reference for students and scholars of Economics and South Asian History.

Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India

Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India
Title Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India PDF eBook
Author Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages 292
Release 1990
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Articles, originally published in the Indian economic and social history review.

The Lost Age of Reason

The Lost Age of Reason
Title The Lost Age of Reason PDF eBook
Author Jonardon Ganeri
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages 299
Release 2011-03-10
Genre History
ISBN 0199218749

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Jonardon Ganeri tells the story of a fascinating period in intellectual history, when Indian philosophy moved into the modern era. Philosophers no longer defer to ancient authorities, but draw upon their insights to seek a true understanding of knowledge, self, and reality. This missing chapter in the development of modernity can at last be read.