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State Formation and Economy Reconsidered
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For too long, considerations of state formation in India have divided on the colonial threshold of history, and the British regime in the subcontinent has been treated as completely different from all prior states as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
For too long, considerations of state formation in India have divided on the colonial threshold of history, and the British regime in the subcontinent has been treated as completely different from all prior states. The most important reason for this seems to be that the historiography of the British empire was created by those who ruled India; it was therefore a kind of trophy of domination. Other reasons include the vast and accessible corpus of records on the creation of the British colonial state, the recency of its emergence, and the foundational character of the colonial state for the independent states of the subcontinent. Continuity of the British colonial state with its predecessors is acknowledged only in the case of the Mughals owing, in part, to the prolonged process of separation of the Company's government from its Mughal imperial cover before the Mutiny. Thus, long after they had ceased as a governing regime, the Mughals were considered by contemporaries and subsequently by historians to be the old regime of India.read more
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Proto-industrialization and pre-colonial south asia
TL;DR: In fact, despite different perspectives scholars of different kinds, anthropologists and historians, agree on this basic axiom as discussed by the authors, not because all would wish to agree with it, as such, but because there would be general agreement with the assumptions behind it, or at least tacit agnosticism.
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Of white whale and countrymen in the eighteenth‐century Maratha Deccan. extended class relations, rights, and the problem of rural autonomy under the old regime 1
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The fifth report from the select committee of the house of commons on the affairs of the East India Company, dated 28th July, 1812
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