Nabanita Sharma has a Ph.D. in history from Delhi University, India. She taught history at Satyawati College (Evening), Delhi University, from 2019 to 2023.

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Introduction: Conceptualising commerce, markets and merchants: The
pre-colonial and the colonial
1 Capital in an age of monarchy: Trade in pre-colonial Assam
2 The political economy of early colonial Assam c. 1820-30
3 Ecology, riverine trade and transportation in the nineteenth century
4 The peripheral market: Expansion of bazaars in Assam c. 1826-1905
5 The traders of the empire: Mercantile communities in the
nineteenth-century Assam
Epilogue

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