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

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

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

Prasannan Parthasarathi

180 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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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 ...

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