Situating Indian History for Sarvepalli Gopal

480 Pages·1986·21.628 MB·English

by  Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Ed), Romila Thapar (Ed)

Situating Indian History
for Sarvepalli Gopal
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Situating Indian
History
for Sarvepalli Gopal
edited by
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
and
Romila Thapar
DELHI
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS
1986
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Contents
A Note on the Contributors vii
Introduction I
Urban Centres in Early Medieval India: An Overview 8
by B. D. Chattopadhyaya
Urbanization in Medieval Tamil Nadu 34
by R. Champakalakshmi
Colonial State and Agrarian Society 106
by Neeladri Bhattacharya
Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the
Early Eighteenth Century 146
by Muzaffar Alain
The Colonial State, Capital and Labour:
Bombay 1919-19 31 171
by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Nationalist Historians’ Interpretations of the Indian
National Movement 194
by Bipan Chandra
The Indian Capitalist Class: Aspects of its Economic,
Political and Ideological Development in the Colonial
Period, 1927-47 239
by Aditya Mukherjee
Understanding Indian Communists: A Survey of
Approaches to the Study of the Communist Movement
in India, 1920-47 288
by Bhagwan Josh
Old Indo-Aryan to Middle Indo-Aryan:
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 331
by K. Meenakshi
VI Contents
Society and Historical Consciousness:
The Itihasa-Purana Tradition
by Rotnila Thapar
Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Study of Ancient
Indian Myths
by Kunal Chakrabarti
The Intellectual History of Colonial India:
Some Historiographical and Conceptual Questions
by K. N. Panikkar
Societal Designs in History: The West and India
by Satish Saberwal