Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
Author: Jibraeil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 042994313X

The volume deals with the inter-relations between agricultural production, agrarian trade, markets, towns and population of urban Rajasthan in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. This study also displays that how the higher receipts from sair-jihat (non-agrarian taxes) in various areas of Rajasthan, worked in the evolution of agrarian markets into qasbas. On the same line the volume shows the fall in industrial activity in the nineteenth century which broadly corresponds with the theory of de-industrialization and de-urbanization. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Nobody's People

Nobody's People
Author: Anastasia Piliavsky
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503614212

What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are "nobody's people": perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world—including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.

Cultural Contours of India

Cultural Contours of India
Author: Vijai Shankar Śrivastava
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Total Pages: 736
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780391023581

Comprises articles on the life and work of Satya Prakash, b. 1914, Indologist, and papers, most on the history and culture of Rajasthan, India.

Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 1982
Genre: Subject catalogs
ISBN:

A History of Modern India, 1480-1950

A History of Modern India, 1480-1950
Author: Claude Markovits
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2004-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 184331004X

A comprehensive chronological analysis of India's vibrant and diverse history.

The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan

The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan
Author: Richard Saran
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 853
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0472901737

The Meṛtīyo Rāṭhoṛs of Meṛto, Rājasthān is a treasure for scholars of Rajpūt history. Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler, whose contributions to Rajpūt studies are well known to specialists in the field, have given us a work of deep and exacting scholarship. It is the culmination of decades devoted to the study of Middle Marwari chronicles from Rājasthān. The sources translated here provide access to the fortunes of a branch of the Jodhpur royal family, and in doing so they illuminate the larger world of Rajpūts in the middle period. The Meṛtīyo Rāṭhoṛs are significant for several reasons. Their story traces the emergence of a Rajpūt brotherhood into local prominence and follows the establishment of their kingdom on the eastern edge of Mārvāṛ as a defined territorial unit. The evolution of the Meṛtīyos as a brotherhood passed through several clearly defined stages, including a relationship with the house of Jodhpur that ranged from mutual support among brothers to hostility and clear separation. A study of the Meṛtīyos in this context provides a unique view of the formation of a strong and indpenedent Rajpūt cadet line, of the establishment and defense of a local territory, and of the internal relations among Rajpūt brotherhoods regarding issues of precedence, honor, patronage, and service. The translations are accompanied by an extensive explanatory apparatus taking various forms, which includes a valuable essay on Rajput social organization, complete genealogies, and biographies of all the major personages of the chronicles.

Slavery and South Asian History

Slavery and South Asian History
Author: Indrani Chatterjee
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253116716

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.