The Economic History of India

Historiographical Issues and Perspectives - Essays in Honour of Professor Ranabir Chakravarti

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Produktbeschreibung

The economic history of early India is a rich and diverse area of study, covering agricultural developments, trade, markets, occupation and professional groups, urbanization and the institutions that govern the economy. Recent research has expanded our understanding of the processes of transformation of the economy in different temporal contexts within the Indian sub-continent. They have particularly led us to explore connected histories given the trans-continental trading networks and movements of people from very early times. This volume seeks to draw attention to this vast and unexplored terrain in the economic history of early India, by bringing together essays on a new and rich historiography. Essays in the volume cover neglected regions, economic processes and structures. Scholars have looked at questions of settlements, crops that were cultivated and market orientation. Essays cover material culture and provide insights into how early Indians lived, what kinds of activities they were engaged in, and how they organised their production activities within and outside domestic spaces. Further the volume bring new insights on hierarchy of settlement types, nature of exchange, and the significance of a nodal site in exchange networks. Maritime history as well as the understanding of trade in its varied forms and manifestations are covered in several essays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789354351488
• ISBN-10: 9354351484
• Artikelnr.: 66769743

Autorenporträt

R. Mahalakshmi is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Suchandra Ghosh is Professor in the Department of History at University of Hyderabad, and specializes in Epigraphy and Numismatics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables, Maps and Figures
Introduction
I. Trade, Traders and Maritime Networks
1. Ashish Kumar, Merchants, Artisans and the Political Processes in Central
India (Gleanings from the Epigraphs of the Guptas and Their Subordinates)
2. Sabarni Pramanik Nayak, Va?ikas and Sre??his in Odisha from the
Epigraphic Perspective (6th to 14th Centuries)
3. Y. Subbarayalu, Nagaram and Ainu??uvar: A Reconsideration of Their
Relations
4. Susmita Basu Majumdar, Salt in Early India: A Socioeconomic Appraisal
5. Nupur Dasgupta, Drugs and Potions: Exploring the Early History of
Medicine in India from an Economic History Perspective
6. Federico De Romanis, Exchanging Coins at Barygaza Periplus 49 and the
Devaluation of the Kar?apa?a
7. Elizabeth Lambourn, 'No Importance and No Value'? Geniza Sources on
Personal Shopping and the 'Economy of Regard'
8. Angela Schottenhammer, Insights into Global Maritime Trade around 1600
II. Land-Grants, Agriculture and the State
9. Meera Viswanathan, What Is an Early Historic Land-Grant? Economics,
Diplomatics and an Indian Epigraphic Form
10. Shyam Narayan Lal, The State, Village Communities and the Agrarian
Order in Early Medieval Western Deccan
11. Dev Kumar Jhanjh, Political Economy in the Hill States of
Brahmapura-Karttikeyapura in Central Himalaya (c. 6th-10th Centuries ce)
12. Malini Adiga, Agrarian Expansion, Irrigation and Trade in Agrarian
Commodities in Early Medieval Karnataka
III. Settlements, Landscapes and Regional Formations
13. V. Selvakumar, Early Historic Cultural Landscapes of the Periyar and
Vaigai Valleys in South India and the Afro-Eurasian-Indian Ocean World
Interactions
14. Suchandra Ghosh, Barygaza/Bharukaccha: A Long-Range History of the Port
15. Krishnendu Ray, Reading the Multilayered Material Culture through
Artefacts from Hathab, Gujarat (4th Century bce to the 6th Century ce)
16. Priyam Barooah, Contextualising Samatat?a-Harikela in Their Political
and Economic Scenario and Exchange Relations with Kamar?pa and China
About Ranabir Chakravarti
Publications of Ranabir Chakravarti
About the Editors and Contributors
Index