One hundred years of servitude: political economy of tea plantations in colonial Assam

Behal, Rana P

ISBN: 9789382381433, 9382381430

This book presents a hundred-year history of tea plantations in the Assam (Brahmaputra) Valley during British colonial rule in India. It explores a world where more than two million migrant labourers worked under conditions of indentured servitude in these tea plantations, producing tea for an increasingly profitable global market.

Peasant history of late pre-colonial and colonial India, by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri

ISBN: 9788131716885, 8131716880

...Civilization, Vol.VIII Part 2 / Gen. Ed.: D.P. Chattopadhyaya.

Pelagic passageways: the Northern Bay of Bangal before colonialism

Mukherjee, Rila (ed.)

ISBN: 9789380607207, 9380607202

Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade, routes and interactive networks, this book visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bangal as embracing upland landlocked areas- Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states- not usually seen as part of maritime history. This book suggests that they too were a part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian O...

Pilgrim tax in India, facts and observations relative to the practice of taxing pilgrims in various parts of India, and of paying a premium to those who collect them for the ......

Peggs, J

....worship of Juggernaut at the great temple in Orissa.

The politics of trade: Anglo-French commerce on the Coromandel coast 1763-1793

Sinha, Arvind

ISBN: 9788173044199, 8173044198

The book deals with the period of transition in the Indian economy from pre-colonial to colonial times.;;

Portuguesee Cochin and the maritime trade of India 1500-1663

Malekandathil, Pius

ISBN: 9788173044069, 8173044066

Property, land, revenue, and policy: the East India Company, c. 1757-1825

Rorabacher, J. Albert

ISBN: 9789350980743, 9350980746

Rethinking classical Indo-Roman trade: political economy of Eastern Mediterranean exchange relations

Gurukkal, Rajan

ISBN: 9780199460854, 019946085X

India's maritime contact with eastern Mediterranean and classical Rome (c. 1st century BCE-3rd century CE) has often been celebrated as `Indo-Roman trade'-a prominent theme in Indian historiography. The author critically rethinks this exchange relation-he argues that the expression `Indo-Roman trade', when examined in the light of extant source material and theoretical insights, is a misnomer.

Revisiting the tea and horse: a historic trade route

Matilal, Phalguni et al

ISBN: 9788182060678, 8182060672

Revival of the silk route: growing role of India

Alam, Mohammad Monir et al.

ISBN: 9788170951254, 8170951259

The rise of civilization in the Gangetic plain: the context of painted grey ware

Tripathi, Vibha

ISBN: 9788173054259, 8173054258

The present book attempts to review the recently retrieved data on the culture and reconstruct the life of a society that coincides well with the Later Vedic period of Indian History. The book is about the rise of civilization in the Ganga Plains. An uninterrupted cultural occupation of the plains starts much later. The foundations of a civilization that has an unbroken history for the millenni...

screaming comes across the sky: postmodernist dilemmas, understanding the fiction of thomas pynchon

Kaushal, Anupama

ISBN: 9789380930046, 9380930046

A brief history of commercial capitalism

Banaji, Jairus

ISBN: 9789383968404, 9383968400

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated with the advances of the Industrial Revolution. But, as the author shows, this leap was preceded by a long era of commercial capitalism, which reorganized labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated.

Small town capitalism in Western India: artisans, merchants and the making of the informal economy, 1870-1960

E, Haynes Douglas

ISBN: 9780521193337, 0521193338

Transregional trade and traders: situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from early times to 1900,

ISBN: 9780199490684, 0199490686

The story of Asia's elephants

Sukumar, Raman

ISBN: 9789380581101, 9380581106

This book is an ecological and cultural history of the Asian elephant and is the first single volume to comprehensively cover the history of Asia's elephants, profusely illustrated with images of the elephant in art from ancient to contemporary times, offering new interpretations, and drawing upon a wide range of literary texts.

The story of tea

Paul, E. Jaiwant

ISBN: 9788174369291, 8174369295

Subversive sovereigns across the seas: Indian ocean ports-of-trade from early historic times to late colonialism, ed. by Kenneth R. Hall et al

ISBN: 9789381574706, 9381574707

This collective places port-of-trade across the Indian Ocean within the wider framework of negotiations, exchanges and circulations. It interrogates the port-of-trade experience along the ocean from Bandar Abbas, Persia to Broome, Western Australia.

Survey of India's social life and economic condition in the eighteenth century, 1707-1813

Datta, Kalikinkar

ISBN: 9788121502580, 8121502586

The tea industry of Assam: origin and development

Baruah, Pradip

ISBN: 9789380261362, 9380261365