Migrations in medieval and early colonial India / edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vijaya Ramaswamy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--India--History.

Migration, Internal.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2016.

Summary:

This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations. A fascinating history of migrations of "people from below", the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138121928

1138121924

OCLC:

935690914