The essays in this volume explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth century India. Please note:Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.
The essays in this volume explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth century India. Please note:Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.
Raziuddin Aquil is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Early Modern Bengal 2. Trails of Travellers: Descriptions of an Early Modern Region in Some European Accounts 3. Marauders of the Sundarbans and the Role of the Island of Sagor, 1600-1800 4. Beyond the Company and its Commerce: Reviewing the Presence of the VOC in Mughal Bengal, 1600-1700 5. The Ostend Company's Worlds: Courtly Interactions and Local Life in Eighteenth-century Bengal 6. The Organization and Operation of the French East India Company in Bengal 7. Imaging of Courtly Life: Bengal Nizamat in Eighteenth-century Murshidabad Paintings 8. Salt Smuggling in Eighteenth-century Bengal: A Dilemma of Boundaries 9. Consumer Preferences, Markets and the State in Early Colonial Bengal with Special Reference to Salt 10. The Books of Religion: Things, Persons, and Consumption Practices in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Bengal 11. Two British Colonies in a Comparative Perspective: Georgia, Bengal and the Colonial Production of Raw Silk, 1730-1830 12. Trans-textuality, Translation and Equivalence: Exploring the Processes of Textual Transposition in the Prologue of Alaol's Padmabati 13. Representation of Women in the Mangalkavyas 14. Bengal Vaishnavism: Early Years and Organization 15. The Sannyasi-Fakir, Chuar and Rangpore Rebellion(s): Resistance, Violence and 'Banditry', 1770-1800 16. Iconophilia?: Art, Colonial Collecting and Missionary Activity in India
1. Introduction: Early Modern Bengal 2. Trails of Travellers: Descriptions of an Early Modern Region in Some European Accounts 3. Marauders of the Sundarbans and the Role of the Island of Sagor, 1600-1800 4. Beyond the Company and its Commerce: Reviewing the Presence of the VOC in Mughal Bengal, 1600-1700 5. The Ostend Company's Worlds: Courtly Interactions and Local Life in Eighteenth-century Bengal 6. The Organization and Operation of the French East India Company in Bengal 7. Imaging of Courtly Life: Bengal Nizamat in Eighteenth-century Murshidabad Paintings 8. Salt Smuggling in Eighteenth-century Bengal: A Dilemma of Boundaries 9. Consumer Preferences, Markets and the State in Early Colonial Bengal with Special Reference to Salt 10. The Books of Religion: Things, Persons, and Consumption Practices in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Bengal 11. Two British Colonies in a Comparative Perspective: Georgia, Bengal and the Colonial Production of Raw Silk, 1730-1830 12. Trans-textuality, Translation and Equivalence: Exploring the Processes of Textual Transposition in the Prologue of Alaol's Padmabati 13. Representation of Women in the Mangalkavyas 14. Bengal Vaishnavism: Early Years and Organization 15. The Sannyasi-Fakir, Chuar and Rangpore Rebellion(s): Resistance, Violence and 'Banditry', 1770-1800 16. Iconophilia?: Art, Colonial Collecting and Missionary Activity in India
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