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100			_aDatta, Rajat _912319
245			_aEconomic transition in early modern India _bproduction, subsistence and the market in eighteenth-century Bengal _cRajat Datta
260			_aDelhi _bPrimus Books, an imprint of Ratna Sagar P. Ltd. _c2024
300			_axx, 287 pages _billustrations (black and white) _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references p. [267]-280.
505			_aBengal's early modern economy: an overview -- The agrarian economy: capital, credit, labour and the structures of subordination -- Dearth and famine: ecology, subsistence and crises -- Subsistence crises and the agrarian order -- Markets, territoriality and the transition -- Commercialization, tribute and the transition
520			_aThis book examines how the agrarian society of Bengal was transformed in the decades after the British conquest. While the focus is local, the arguments have a wider resonance. Datta revisits old debates, re-examines established orthodoxies, offers provocative arguments, and persuades us to rethink the history of late Mughal and early modern India. His arguments proceed at two levels. At one, he explores the working of markets: estimating bullion influx, trade fluctuations, price movements, and commodity flows. He shows how the internal trade between Bengal and other regions expanded, bazars and haats proliferated, with merchants and markets creating an interlocking network tying the towns to the countryside. At another level, Datta zooms into the rural areas to recover the lives of peasants. We see them engaged in intensive cultivation of their land with domestic labour, producing rice, lentils, mustard, mulberry and cotton, participating in an increasingly complex market network, negotiating monsoons and fluctuating harvests. Through a close study of the 1769–70 famine, Datta explores how such cataclysmic crises were produced, and what they meant to different sections of rural society. Deeply researched and engagingly written, Economic Transition in Early Modern India is an outstanding contribution to the history of early modern India.
650			_aAgriculture _xEconomic aspects _zWest Bengal _zIndia. _912320
650			_aFamines _zIndia _zBengal _xHistory. _912321
650			_aProduce trade _zBengal _zIndia. _912322
651			_aBengal (India) _xEconomic conditions _y18th century. _912323
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