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020			_a9780198077466
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distibutors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c; BW/000409 _d: 24/01/2026
082			_a954 BAY
100			_aBayly, Christopher Alan.
245			_aRulers, townsmen and bazaars _b: North Indian society in the age of British expansion 1770-1870. _c/ Christopher Alan Bayly.
260			_aDelhi _b: Oxford University Press _c , 1992.
300			_axxviii, 632p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b556.5
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aSouth Asia India
650			_aSocial conditions.
650			_aCities and towns
700			_aC.A. Bayly
942			_cBOOK
999			_c67077 _d67077