Journal article
India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange
- Abstract:
- India played a leading role in the growth of the early modern world economy. Yet its historiography has been dominated by forebodings of the colonial conquest and decline, which were to overtake it at the end of the eighteenth century. This essay seeks to explore the strengths rather than weaknesses of the Indian economy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries when the goods which it produced were in heavy demand in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. However, it also points to ways in which specific features of India's commercial development created vulnerabilities to conquest from overseas, which would be exploited later on.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Global History More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 87-111
- Publication date:
- 2007-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1740-0236
- ISSN:
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1740-0228
- Language:
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English
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- Local pid:
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ora:3840
- Deposit date:
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2010-06-03
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- Copyright holder:
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Washbrook, D. (2007). 'India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange', Journal of Global History 2(1), 87-111. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JGH]. N.B. Dr Washbrook is also based at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
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