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The Transition to a Colonial Economy - Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Paperback)
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The Transition to a Colonial Economy - Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living
have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this
view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late
eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the
bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving
incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic
fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the
end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on
revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of
Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism
of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early
colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that
poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book
promises to make an important contribution to the economic history
of the region, and to the study of colonialism.
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