Dynamics of North Bengal Economy : Colonial to Post-colonial Period
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9788195090990
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A New Economic History of Colonial India
Author: Latika Chaudhary
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317674332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the standard of living, the labour market and the aftermath of the Partition. It also addresses how education and work changed, and provides a rethinking of traditional topics including de-industrialization, industrialization, railways, balance of payments, and the East India Company. Written in an accessible way, the contributors – all leading experts in their fields – firmly place Indian history in the context of world history. An up-to-date critical survey and novel resource on Indian Economic History, this book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Economic History, Indian and South Asian Studies, Economics and Comparative and Global History.
A Time for Tea
Author: Piya Chatterjee
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001-11-29
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780822326748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVAn innovative ethnography of the production, circulation, and consumption of tea, centered on the lives of the mostly women workers who produce it./div
Constructing Post-Colonial India
Author: Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1134683596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Author: Sugata Bose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-11
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521266949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
The Nation and Its Fragments
Author: Partha Chatterjee
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0691201420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia: Political and social transformations in north India and Nepal
Author: Hiroshi Ishii
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 544
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Enclaves in a Peasant Society
Author: Asim Kumar Chaudhuri
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Work Relates To The Vast Tract Of Western Dooars Of Jalpaiguri District In Bengal Which Has Stagnated After 1911 And The Benefit Of Tea Industry Have Not Gone To The People Of The Areas. Has 5 Perceptive Chapters In Addition To 4 Appendices.
Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia
Author: Partha Nath Mukherji
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9811303878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, family and gender, and nationalism. In the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory as well as issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis on the need for social researchers to transcend the ‘what’ and ‘how’ to ‘why’ in the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The volume is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a book of substantive readings on social dynamics; those researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects.
Global Capital and Peripheral Labour
Author: Ravi Raman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-01-21
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1135196575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and uses the World Systems theory so as to demonstrate the practical utility of the theory and its limitations as a guide to historical research. Based on extensive archival research, the book interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism by focusing on the work, life and struggle of the dalits on plantations in colonial and post-colonial South India as they evolved from the mid-19th century. It argues that these elements of the plantation life-world were fashioned by the specific characteristics of the workers' location within the capitalist world-economy, the then prevailing local social structure and the scheme of disciplining to which the workers were subjected to. Treating the relations among various social forces – the planting communities, the oppressed communities (dalits in India), the regional and national state, and the Imperial regime, this book fills a gap in academic literature on capitalism, economic development, and globalization.
