Land, politics, and trade in South Asia
By: edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Contributors: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Land tenure -- India -- History.; India -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.; India -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Other titles: Indian economic and social history review.
Description: Contributed articles previously published in Indian economic and social history review.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Colonian transitions and Indian historiography / Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: Cooperation and conflict among European traders in the Indian Ocean in the late eighteenth century / Om Prakash; title: The opium industry in British India / John F. Richards; title: Claims on the commons : political power and natural resources in pre-colonial India / Sumit Guha; title: Profiles in transition : of adventurers and administrators in South India, 1750-1810 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: State formation and 'famine policy' in early colonial South India / Ravi Ahuja; title: Dr. Johnson and the pandits : imagining the perfect dictionary in colonial Madras / Thomas R. Trautmann; title: Spectres of agrarian territory in Southern India / David Ludden; title: From mirasidar to pattadar : South India in the late nineteenth century; title: Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period / Tirthankar Roy; title: 'In those days there was no coffee' : cofee-drinking and middle-class culture in colonial Tamilnadu / A.R. Venkatachalapathy.