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The Eighteenth Century in India
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Table of contents :
Contents
General Editors' Preface
1. Introduction | Seema Alavi
2. The Eighteenth Century in Indian Economic History | Irfan Habib
3. Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century | Muzaffar Alam
4. Economic and Political Expansion: The Case of Awadh | P] Marshall
5. Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century Bengal | Om Prakash
6. Epilogue to the Indian Edition | CA Bayly
7. Merchants and the Rise of Colonialism | Prasannan Parthasarathi
8. The Initial British Impact on India | Bernard S. Cohn
Index
Notes on Contributors

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