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Detailed
In this work of interrelationship between Indian proto-industrialization and modern world system, the author studies the intricate processes, mechanisms and techniques of interdependence during the 17th and the 18th centuries. In a detailed analysis of establishing hegemony over the modern world system by hegemons (Dutch, 17th century, English, 18th century), both the volumes comprehend coherently the methodology and processes involved in the expansion of Indian economy initially, and incorporation and integration of it into the ambit of modern world system in the 18th century. One of the latent aims in a study like this is to highlight the tentative technicalities responsible for peripheralizing India. The book also describes how the modern world system broadened, intensified and diversified the horizon of world market for Indian proto-industrial goods by establishing hegemony over world oceanic space and offering optimal oceanic security to international trading companies and private ocean operators. Such a politico-socio-economic global system hardly could be managed without environmental, climatic, maritime and epidemiological negativity in the peripheral regions. These issues also constitute vital organs of the present work. By bringing together and analysing the existing literature available in different languages, the author offers a fascinating overview of the deep penetrating impact of modern world system on early modern India which promises to be of great utility to students of Indian, European, oceanic, medical, environmental and proto-industrial histories.
Salient Features
· The book is over 1,000 pages divided in 10 chapters in two handy volumes.
· The book is well illustrated by 18 maps, 61 tables, supported by 61 graphs and 6 figures.
· Some tables have been calculated and summarized from 1,400 pages.
· More than 737 technical words in Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and in regional and local languages have been explained in ‘explanatory Indian words’ used in the book and a glossary of 240 textile terms add to the value of the book.
· The introduction of 31 pages gives a bird’s eye-view of the interrelationship between Indian proto-industrialization and modern world system.
· Detailed Bibliography of 60 pages having more than 2,000 references of book, journals, etc. would help the reader for further advanced research.
· Comprehensive index of 104 pages contai
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