Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India |
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| Editor:
| Subrahmanyam, Sanjay |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-562569-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1991 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume comprises eleven essays that study the process of economic change in pre-industrial India, the ways in which markets functioned, the place of individual merchants in the regional societies of India, the role of mercantile communities as agents and victims of change, and the complex relationships between political states and trading communities.
This volume comprises eleven essays that study the process of economic change in pre-industrial India, the ways in which markets functioned, the place of individual merchants in the regional societies of India, the role of mercantile communities as agents and victims of change, and the complex relationships between political states and trading communities.