Author: Tapan Raychaudhuri
Irfan Habib/
Editor(s): Tapan Raychaudhuri / Irfan Habib
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2007/2014
Language: English
Pages: 543
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125027300
Description
The two-volume Cambridge Economic History of India has served as the single most widely consulted and cited reference for over twenty years. This volume covers a spectrum of socio-economic views on, and reviews of , c 1200-1500, the pre-Mughal period. It begins at the point from which a systematic treatment of Indian economic history becomes possible. It closes on the eve of the subjugation of the country and its economy by Britain.
Twenty-seven essays in fifteen chapters by social and economic historians of national and international renown together construct an India whose modern constructions along broader lines and patterns are seen to emerge in the second volume to this history.
The first volume of The Cambridge History of India was published in 1922. Explaining its raison d’etre, the editor, Professor E J Rapson, referred to the vast accumulation of knowledge on Indian history and the consequent need for an authoritative summary. As the history of that project later revealed, the knowledge transmitted contained serious gaps. In particular, the series devoted hardly any attention to economic and social history. On the other hand, it is now recognized that The Cambridge History of India was more than a précis of existing knowledge. Its contributors not only added to the existing stock of information; but their interpretations, in spite of limitations of the set framework and the kind of bias inseparable from the times, also provoked further reflection and research.
Contents
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
The Geographical Background by Irfan Habib
South India: Some General considerations of the Region and its Early History
PART I: c 1200-1500
NORTHERN INDIA UNDER THE SULTANATE
Economic Conditions before 1200
Agrarian Economy
Non-Agricultural Production and Urban Economy
The Currency System
VIJYANAGARA c 1350-1564
THE MARITIME TRADE OF INDIA
PART II: c 1500-1750
POPULATION
THE STATE AND THE ECONOMY
The Mughal Empire
Maharashtra and the Deccan: a Note
The South
THE SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Mughal India
South India
AGRARIAN RELATIONS AND LAND REVENUE
North India
The Medieval Deccan and Maharashtra
NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Mughal India
Maharashtra and the Deccan
South India
INLAND TRADE
MONETARY SYSTEM AND PRICES
FOREIGN TRADE
European Trade with India
India Merchants and the Trade in the Indian Ocean
TOWNS AND CITIES
Mughal India
The Far South
STANDARD OF LIVING
Mughal India
Maharashtra and the Deccan
APPENDIX
The Medieval Economy of Assam
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX