TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bayly, Christopher Alan.
AU  - C.A. Bayly 
TI  - Rulers, townsmen and bazaars: : North Indian society in the age of British expansion 1770-1870
SN  - 9780198077466
U1  - 954 BAY 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Delhi 
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - South Asia India
KW  - Social conditions.
KW  - Cities and towns
N2  - This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the upheavals in the eighteenth century that paved the way for the incoming British. He shows how the colonial enterprise was built on an existing resilient network of towns, rural bazaars, and merchant communities; and how in turn, colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. This edition comes with a new introduction

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