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This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the key streams of modern historical thought and history-writing in the West and in India. Focusing on major theoretical perspectives and historical methods, it primarily concerns itself with the emergence, growth, climax, and partial decline of modernity in historical thoughts and writings, particularly in Europe and India. Pre-modern historiographical traditions, Oriental and Occidental, have also been examined in ...
This work is concerned with the early history of labour in the Bombay cotton textile industry. It takes into account various facets of workers’ lives – economic as well as social, cultural and political – and emphasizes both the uniqueness and commonness of the workers’ experiences with relation to the rest of the population. The author begins with a structural outline of the industry, its history and demographic specificities. The long hours of work, the ...