Elites in South Asia

Klappentext A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. Zusammenfassung A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Mughal Mansabdari System Percival Spear; 2. Traditional Elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: Some Aspects of Rural Revolt in the Upper and Central Doab Eric Stokes; 3. Class, Caste and Politics in Calcutta, 1815-38 S. N. Mukherjee; 4. Competing Elites in Bombay City Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1852-83) Christine Dobbin; 5. Chitpavan Brahmins and Politics in Western India in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Gordon Johnson; 6. The Landed Gentry of the Telengana, Andhra Pradesh Hugh Gray; 7. Candidates for the 1967 General Elections in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dagmar Bernstorff; 8. M. N. Roy and Radical Humanism: The Ideology of an Indian Intellectual Elite D. G. Dalton; 9. The Academic Profession in India Edward Shils; 10. The Merchant's of Surat, c. 1700-50 Ashin Das Gupta; 11. European and Indian Entrepreneurship in India, 1900-30 Amiya Kumar Bagchi.

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• Authors: Edmund Leach, Edmund Mukherjee Leach, S. N. Mukherjee
• Assisted by: Edmund Leach (Editor), S. N. Mukherjee (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521107655
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10765-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories