Socio Cultural Life Of Merchants In Mughal Gujarat

Author : Monika Sharma
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781482840360

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Socio-Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat by Monika Sharma Pdf

Socio - Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat by Monika Sharma focuses on the identification of the varied communities involved in commercial activities and maritime trade - Banias, Bohras. Parsis, Khojas, Memons, Ghanchis, Chalebis, Armenians and European during 16th-17th centuries. The project embraces life-style, traditions, festivals, institutions and the professional aspects of merchants life. The study explores the region of Gujarat its geographical layout, urban set-up, trade centres, cities, manufacturing centres, ports and trade routes. The living standards, viz. housing, system of education, entertainment, the status women, food habits, dresses, ornaments and other aspects of their daily life etc. are investigated in order to make a comparative study of the different cultures. The study intends to know about the religion, social activities, festivals, rituals, marriages, customs and mores followed. The present work entails the investigation of custom, rituals and mores related to society and religion of the various merchant communities. One can also discern the existing social evils like sati, polygamy and enforced widowhood. The focal point of the study is merchants-Mughal nexus too, which is vital to understand the benefits accrued by the merchant communities. In what manner the proximity with imperial court benefitted them and resulted in their social elevation. One of the objectives of this study would be contextualize the idea of money for different merchants, which is discussed in chapter six. How the various communities invested their money to acquire political and social advantages. The stable system of brokers, sarraf and sahukars, mahajan, and nagarsheth which sustained the community are also focussed.

Author : Pika Ghosh,Pushkar Sohoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000986075

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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes by Pika Ghosh,Pushkar Sohoni Pdf

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments, and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming, glancing to looking askance, hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality, aesthetics, and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology, exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles, manuscript ‘lozenges,’ and metal repousse. This volume, part of the Visual Media and Histories Series, will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art, religious studies, and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Supriya Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000429015

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Religion and the City in India by Supriya Chaudhuri Pdf

This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context. Uniting the historical with the contemporary by looking at the medieval and early modern links between religious faith and urban settlement, the book brings together a series of focused studies of the mixed and multiple practices and spatial negotiations of religion in the South Asian city. It looks at the various ways in which contemporary religious practice affects urban everyday life, commerce, craft, infrastructure, cultural forms, art, music and architecture. Chapters draw upon original empirical study and research to analyze the foundational, structural, material and cultural connections between religious practice and urban formations or flows. The book argues that Indian cities are not ‘postsecular’ in the sense that the term is currently used in the modern West, but that there has been, rather, a deep, even foundational link between religion and urbanism, producing different versions of urban modernity. Questions of caste, gender, community, intersectional entanglements, physical proximity, private or public ritual, processions and prayer, economic and political factors, material objects, and changes in the built environment, are all taken into consideration, and the book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of different historical periods, different cities, and different types of religious practice. Filling a gap in the literature by discussing a diversity of settings and faiths, the book will be of interest to scholars to South Asian history, sociology, literary analysis, urban studies and cultural studies.

Author : Elena V. Shabliy,Dmitry Kurochkin,Martha J. Crawford
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030531218

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Discourses on Sustainability by Elena V. Shabliy,Dmitry Kurochkin,Martha J. Crawford Pdf

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide—in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development. Exploring various responses to human-induced climate change, the book offers a critical reflection on climate change and clean energy and highlights the fundamental problems of international energy justice and human rights. Examining these and other climate-related issues from legal, business, political, and scientific perspectives, the volume also analyzes the impact of economic factors and policies on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Author : Kaveh Yazdani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004330795

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India, Modernity and the Great Divergence by Kaveh Yazdani Pdf

This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.

Author : Ruby Maloni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UOM:39015061110121

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Surat, Port of the Mughal Empire by Ruby Maloni Pdf

On the commercial activities in Surat, India, in 17th century and its role as a trade route and harbor of Mogul Empire; a study.

Author : Ghulam A. Nadri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004172029

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Eighteenth-Century Gujarat by Ghulam A. Nadri Pdf

The eighteenth century in South Asian history is a period of great dynamism and a critical phase in the historical trajectory of the subcontinent. This book focuses on the merchants and manufacturers of Gujarat, who amidst complex political developments succeeded in preserving their autonomy and freedom in the market place. By spotting economic growth in the late eighteenth century, this study rejects the constructed dualism between a seventeenth century of great progress and an eighteenth century of chaos and decline.

Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B3173702

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Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat by Ashin Das Gupta Pdf

Author : Phanindranath Chakrabarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018274733

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Rise and Growth of English East India Company by Phanindranath Chakrabarty Pdf

From Factory To Fort And From The Fort To Empire Was The Design Of The English East India Company In India. As Far As The Company Is Concerned, Not Much Is Known Of The Unofficial Beginnings Of The Growth Of England`S Commercial Interests In India.

Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516812

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Paper, Performance, and the State : Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan Pdf

Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.

Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009576997

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Merchants of Maritime India, 1500-1800 by Ashin Das Gupta Pdf

The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face of European competition and monopolies. Much of the evidence for the activity of these Indian merchants comes from the records of the Dutch and English East India Companies, as well as the papers of English private merchants, and this is carefully assessed by Professor Das Gupta in these articles. He is also concerned to set the picture thus gained in the context of the trade of the Indian Ocean region as a whole, and to relate it to the questions of continuity and change raised by Van Leur.

Author : Harish Chandra Verma
Publisher : New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032320411

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Dynamics of Urban Life in Pre-Mughal India by Harish Chandra Verma Pdf

Description: The present study is based on the theory of social surplus which continues to be the best working hypothesis to test some of the complex social and economic problems like the one at hand. An attempt has been made to study how social surplus determined changes in society and economy, created class consciousness and shaped the relationship between the producers and the consumers at the urban and rural level as well as gave rise to trade and commerce with all its ancillary consequences. As the surplus was concentrated in the non-agricultural zones with a densely populated and clumped nuclei of houses, the growth of urban centres was its concomitant. These urban centres were primarily a class-based society arising out of the disproportionate distribution of shares of the social surplus. The towns were not merely princely fortified camps superimposed, as Marx remarks, upon economic structure of our society, it had its own dynamism and was closely linked up with its surroundings. It gave a fillip to the emergence of a new ruling class who did not own the land but controlled and enjoyed its fruits. Ideology of this dominant ruling-cum-appropriating class through various mechanisms exercised firm grip over the minds of the people. We have tried to underline this fact within the framework of conflict, adjustment and reconciliation between the ruling class and the people. Connected with these is the question of the extent of cultivable land in our period of study. It has been shown in the present work that the theory of abundance of land does not hold water. This has led us to concentrate our arguments on the hypothesis of the intensive nature of cultivation which gave rise to the most difficult task of procurement and distribution of grains to the urban population. How demographic changes brought about mobility among the people and what role the monetary system played in the urban economy and society, have been closely examined here. Delhi has been taken as a case study to highlight the interplay of these forces to illustrate the dynamics of urban life in pre-Mughal India.

Author : Arvind Rajagopal,Anupama Rao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351558709

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Media and Utopia by Arvind Rajagopal,Anupama Rao Pdf

Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.

Author : Ranabir Chakravarti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000170122

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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society by Ranabir Chakravarti Pdf

Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants, this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent. The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian trade as exchanges in small quantity, exotic, portable luxury items and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively inexpensive bulk commodities – including agrarian/floral products – at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal, the third edition of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat, dealing respectively with an organization of merchants during the early sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India. Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources, the book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by taking into account the current literature on the subject.

Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521850223

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Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal Pdf

This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.