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Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India
Author | : Nishat Manzar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000395375 |
This volume takes a pan-Indian view of different professional groups and service providers mainly based in towns. While Persian texts provide limited information on the subject, European sources in the form of travelogues, letters, memoirs and official reports unfold an interesting panorama on the subject. Here focus has been on the seventeenth century, as some prominent European share holders’ Companies established their warehouses-cum-residential complexes in India in this very century. Officials of these Companies sent to India or elsewhere, maintained proper records of their transactions and interaction with the state officials, common people, servants inside the household and outside, and through their reports attracted many European freebooters also to have a firsthand experience of the East. Here from, we get numerous details on the social life, working conditions, wages and other aspects of life of people who earned their livelihood through manual labour, as conditions in India appeared novel to them and they meticulously recorded everything with much interest. Their information is corroborated with the Indian sources. In both types of sources – Persian and European – artisans, labourers and service providers have generally been projected as ‘poor’, ‘miserable’ and ‘wretched’; who faced exploitation at all levels. Still, their contribution to the economy and society was imperative. Aspects of life of such people deserve a detailed discussion as this volume amply proves. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Wage Earners in India 1500–1900
Author | : Lucassen, Jan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publishing India |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9354793649 |
The study of wage levels and the purchasing power of wages is often viewed as a specialized academic topic of little concern to the wider public. This is far from being the case, as this book demonstrates. The study of wages opens up vistas of the daily life of the working people, of their standards of living and, therefore, addresses questions of larger economic developments and unequal power relationships in a region. Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context brings together several scholars—young and veteran—to study new data and reinterpret older data from a fresh methodological perspective to locate India within global economic systems more effectively. This book • identifies previously unused and unpublished material for the study of wages • underlines the importance of wages as a source of income for Indians from early times • demonstrates the trends in wages over the period under review • stresses the need to take women into account for the reconstruction of household income
Aspects of Indian Labour
Author | : Deepak Lal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The second of two volumes which offer an interpretation of Indian economic, social and political history that will help in an understanding of India's current economic stagnation, poverty and social problems.In particular this book provides arguments against the conventional view that there is surplus labour in India. It puts together the available historical data on wage trends and wage structures in India, and in this context examines the determinants of unemployment and rural and urban wages.
Proceedings
Author | : Indian History Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1078 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Rise and Decline of Urban Industries in Italy and in the Low Countries
Author | : Herman van der Wee |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India
Author | : Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The concepts of "trade," "market," and "state" both divide historians, economists, and anthropologists, and provide a meeting point for discussion in these disciplines. These essays, originally published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and available now for the first time in a single volume, provide a comprehensive look at the process of economic change in pre-industrial India; the ways in which markets functioned; the role of individuals merchants in the regional societies of India; the position of mercantile communities as agents and victims of change; and the complex relationships between political states and trading communities.
The Middle East: A History
Author | : William Ochsenwald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 2010-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Praised for its straightforward and accessible style, this text provides a general introduction to the chief elements in Middle Eastern history, allowing readers to proceed into more specialized topics and themes with a solid understanding of the most current scholarship in the field