This pioneering study, now known as the 'Bayly thesis', traces the evolution of the north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the 1857 'mutiny ...
The first section of the book looks at the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the 'Time of Troubles' in the eighteenth century.
North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion: 1770–1870 C.A. Bayly. were impoverished and dispossessed ... Allahabad, 1880– 1920 (Oxford, 1975), republished in The C. A. Bayly Omnibus (Delhi, 2009). 2 Tribune (Lahore), 10 August ...
This volume traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Moghul dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the 1857 'mutiny'.
First published in 1983, this book has been widely acknowledged as a pathbreaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India.