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Author:   Raziuddin Aquil ,  Tilottama Mukherjee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367497880

ISBN 10:   0367497883
Pages:   596
Publication Date:   25 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Early Modern Bengal 2. Trails of Travellers: Descriptions of an Early Modern Region in Some European Accounts 3. Marauders of the Sundarbans and the Role of the Island of Sagor, 1600-1800 4. Beyond the Company and its Commerce: Reviewing the Presence of the VOC in Mughal Bengal, 1600-1700 5. The Ostend Company’s Worlds: Courtly Interactions and Local Life in Eighteenth-century Bengal 6. The Organization and Operation of the French East India Company in Bengal 7. Imaging of Courtly Life: Bengal Nizamat in Eighteenth-century Murshidabad Paintings 8. Salt Smuggling in Eighteenth-century Bengal: A Dilemma of Boundaries 9. Consumer Preferences, Markets and the State in Early Colonial Bengal with Special Reference to Salt 10. The Books of Religion: Things, Persons, and Consumption Practices in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Bengal 11. Two British Colonies in a Comparative Perspective: Georgia, Bengal and the Colonial Production of Raw Silk, 1730-1830 12. Trans-textuality, Translation and Equivalence: Exploring the Processes of Textual Transposition in the Prologue of Alaol’s Padmabati 13. Representation of Women in the Mangalkavyas 14. Bengal Vaishnavism: Early Years and Organization 15. The Sannyasi-Fakir, Chuar and Rangpore Rebellion(s): Resistance, Violence and ‘Banditry’, 1770-1800 16. Iconophilia?: Art, Colonial Collecting and Missionary Activity in India

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Raziuddin Aquil is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

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