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This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India's history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical scrutiny by various contributors, they do not foreground the discussion because they tend to straitjacket perspectives in one or the other direction. The idea is to use as many entry points as possible to ...
The overarching theme of this book is to analyse the dynamics of commercial relations in Bengal’s countryside in the late eighteenth century. To this end, the structure of rural society, the nature of agricultural production and marketing and vicissitudes of subsistence in Bengal’s villages in this period have been examined in detail.The conventional understanding that treats commercialization of agriculture exclusively as the growth of certain high-value, or ...