Indian society and the making of the British Empire / C.A. Bayly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan), author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

New Cambridge history of India ; I, 2.

The new Cambridge history of India ; I, 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--18th century.

India.

India--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Other Title:

Indian Society & the Making of the British Empire

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the 'decline of the Moghuls' and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East Indian Company's trade and urban settlements. Professor Bayly considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the Company to transform India into a quiescent and profitable colony. Later chapters deal with changes in India's ecology, social organisation and ideologies in the nineteenth century, and analyse the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the rebellion of 1857.

Contents:

Introduction

India in the Eighteenth Century: the formation of states and social groups

Indian capitalism and the emergence of colonial society

The crisis of the Indian state, 1780-1820

The consolidation and failure of the East India Company's state, 1818-57

Peasant and Brahmin: consolidating 'traditional' society

Rebellion and reconstruction

Conclusion: The first aage of colonialism in India

Glossary of Indian terms.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index.

ISBN:

9780511096921

0511096925

9781139053501

1139053507

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02420 hdl