India and the Early Modern World

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Belief 3. Ideology 4. Urbanism 5. Capitalism 6. Violence 7. The State 8. Kingship 9. Vernacularisation 10. Knowledge 11. Conclusion

About the author

Jagjeet Lally is Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India at University College London, where he is also Co-Director of the UCL Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. He was educated at Oxford, the London School of Economics, and then at Cambridge, where he was also a junior research fellow. His prize-winning first book is India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World (2021).

Summary

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.

Product details

• Authors: Jagjeet Lally
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2023
• EAN: 9780367440633
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44063-3
• No. of pages: 546
• Series: Countries in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, India, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Asian History, General and world history, Regional Geography, HISTORY / Asia / South / India