India, Modernity and the Great Divergence

Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33078-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 670 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Library of Economic History

India, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yazdani, Kaveh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. xiii
Problem of Quotation and Transliteration. xvi
List of Illustrations. xvii
List of Abbreviations. xvii
Glossary. xx
Maps. xxvi

Introduction. 1
0.1) Preliminary Remarks. 1
0.2) Purpose of Study. 2
0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11
0.4) Orientalism. 11
0.5) Eurocentrism. 13
0.6) Methodology. 14
0.7) Modes of Production. 16
0.8) Modernity. 22
0.9) ‘Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous’. 31
0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization. 32
0.11) Prospect. 61

1 The Transitional State of India’s History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries. 66
1.1) Introduction. 66
1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe. 69
1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System. 79
1.4) Technology. 84
1.5) Documents and Manuscripts. 98
1.6) Science and Learning. 100
1.7) Printing. 105
1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a ‘Public Sphere’. 107
1.9) King Serfoji II. 111
1.10) Conclusion. 112

2 Mysore. 115
2.1) Preliminary Remarks. 115
2.2) Economy. 116
2.2.1) Introduction. 116
2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations. 130
2.2.3) Living Conditions. 165
2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism. 170
2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology. 184
2.2.6) Property Rights. 212
2.3) Administration. 220
2.3.1) Introduction. 220
2.3.2) Tipu’s Administration. 223
2.3.3) Revenues. 227
2.3.4) Conclusion. 229
2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure. 230
2.4.1) Conclusion. 236
2.5) Military Establishment. 239
2.5.1) Introduction. 239
2.5.2) Cavalry. 244
2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery. 247
2.5.4) Rocket Technology. 251
2.5.5) Fortification. 25

Über Autor(innen)

Kaveh Yazdani, Ph.D. (2014), is a Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published a number of articles, including ‘Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan – Mysore’s 18th Century Rulers in Transition’.