Towns and Cities of Medieval India

Towns and Cities of Medieval India

Author: Aniruddha Ray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 1351997300

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This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of towns and cities in medieval India from the early thirteenth to the late eighteenth century. The selection is based on the availability of documents. These include the narratives of European travellers in English, French, Italian, Dutch, and German with the exception of Ibn Battuta in mid-fourteenth century and also Middle Bengali literature in case of towns in Bengal. While the coastal towns and cities have been looked at, the interior ones are also described on the basis of the writings of later historians and archaeologists. Care has been taken to explain the rise, growth and the decline of some towns and cities in which the changing courses of rivers had played a crucial role. Attempts have been made to search other factors responsible for such eventualities. The delineation of physical features within the city has been given due emphasis including the different quarters of the city and the manners and customs of the local population with reference to craft production and commercial links. The morphological differences between the cities of eastern and those of the western or northern India have also been described. This is clear from the observations of port towns described here. All these would show that India was one of the most urbanized area in the medieval period before advent of the British.


Technology in Ancient & Medieval India

Technology in Ancient & Medieval India

Author: Aniruddha Ray

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Papers presented at the Seminar on Technology in Medieval India--16th to 18th Century, September 7 and 8, 1984, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Calcutta.


The Colonial State: Theory and Practice

The Colonial State: Theory and Practice

Author: General Editor Towards Freedom Project Indian Council of Historical Research Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Publisher: Ratna Sagar

Published: 2016-04-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789384092054

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The aim in this work is to address, through historical narrativization of some specific moments of colonial state building, the question: What, in theory, are the historical specificities of the 'colonial' state as distinct from other state forms? An attempt is made in this book, to weave together the discourse of state theory and the narrative of state practices. This approach is based on the argument that theory was not something out there to guide practice. Empirical evidence suggests a more complex picture of interaction between the two where, within parameters structured by theory, the practice in turn produces and structures theory at each conjuncture.


Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians

Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians

Author: Kimberly Johnston-Dodds

Publisher: California Research Bureau

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.