An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal

ISBN-13: 9780367497880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 596 str.

Raziuddin Aquil; Tilottama Mukherjee

Opis

The essays in this volume explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth century India.

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Spis treści

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