03294nam 22006492 450 991078317410332120151005020621.01-107-11332-61-280-15313-X0-511-11645-40-511-01850-90-511-15621-90-511-32913-X0-511-49741-50-511-05361-4(CKB)1000000000008080(EBL)201835(OCoLC)559243670(SSID)ssj0000261536(PQKBManifestationID)11239047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261536(PQKBWorkID)10268709(PQKB)10656769(UkCbUP)CR9780511497414(MiAaPQ)EBC201835(Au-PeEL)EBL201835(CaPaEBR)ebr10064283(CaONFJC)MIL15313(EXLCZ)99100000000000808020090309d2001|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe transition to a colonial economy weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800 /Prasannan Parthasarathi[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.1 online resource (xii, 165 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ;7Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-05622-5 0-521-57042-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-160) and index.1.Weavers and merchants 1720-1760 --2.Agriculture and cotton textiles --3.Weaver distress 1765-1800 --4.Weaver protest --5.Laborers, kings and colonialism.According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.Cambridge studies in Indian history and society. ;7.IndustriesIndia, SouthHistory18th centuryIndia, SouthEconomic conditions18th centuryIndustriesHistory330.954/029Parthasarathi Prasannan741124UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910783174103321The transition to a colonial economy3779851UNINA