Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India - Bihar: 1733-1820

This monograph deals with the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India - a period during which Eastern India (and Bihar) experienced the transition to British colonial rule. As a point of departure from existing scholarly literature that usually studies this transition in material terms, this volume uses an approach that takes into account the configuration of social relations and political connections within which, it argues, commercial activity was embedded.
Using merchants and bankers as its subjects, this book deals with the structure of trade and banking, the position of merchants in the cultural order and the role of the state in perpetuating this order.

About the author

Kumkum Chatterjee, Ph.D. (1989) in History, Calcutta University, is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. The author of several journal articles, she has a broad research interest in the social and economic history of early modern India.

Product details

• Authors: Chatterjee
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1996
• EAN: 9789004103030
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10303-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 243 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies