Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India: Artisans, Labourers, Service Providers and Entertainers

ISBN-13: 9781032013169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 460 str.

Nishat Manzar

Opis

This book through European sources in the form of travelogues, letters, memoirs and official reports, discusses the social life, working conditions, wages and other aspects of life of people living in the 17th Century, who earned their livelihood through manual labour.
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Spis treści

Introduction 1. Low-paid Servants, Labourers and other Professional Groups 2. Categories of Artisans, Labourers and other Service Providers 3. The Basic Needs: Food, Clothing and Housing 4. Wages: A Basic Requirement for Subsistence 5. Aspects of Social Life 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Nishat Manzar is the Head of Department of History and Culture. She has been teaching History of Medieval India, Medieval Central Asia and Islam since the last twenty-five years.