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Paperback The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 Book

ISBN: 0521033101

ISBN13: 9780521033107

The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series)

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In a challenge to the widespread belief that poverty and poor living standards have been characteristic of India for centuries, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, laboring groups in South India were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. It was with the rise of colonial rule, the author maintains, that the decline in their economic fortunes was initiated. This is a powerful revisionist...

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