An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal
Aquil, R.; Mukherjee, T. (Ed.) (2020). An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. Manohar Publishers: New Delhi. ISBN 978-93-88540-91-9. 595 pp.
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17th century
Bengal, west
Cultural anthropology
Trade
Belgium, Ostende
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| Auteurs | | Top |
- Aquil, R., redacteur
- Mukherjee, T., redacteur
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- Aquil, R. (2020). Introduction: Early Modern Bengal, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 1-34, meer
- Mukherjee, T. (2020). Trails of travellers: Descriptions of an Early Modern region in some European accounts, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 35-82, meer
- Chattopadhay, G. (2020). Marauders of the Sundarbans and the role of the Island of Sagor, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 83-122, meer
- Sur, B. (2020). Beyond the company and its commerce: Reviewing the presence of the VOC in Mughal Bengal, 1600-1700, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 123-155, meer
- De Winter, W. (2020). The Ostend Company's Worlds: Courtly interactions and local life in Eighteenth-century Bengal, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 157-185, meer
- Munshi, S. (2020). The organization and operation of the French East India Company in Bengal, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 187-228, meer
- Sil, M. (2020). Imaging of courtly life: Bengal Nizamat in Eighteenth-century Murshidabad paintings, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 229-253, meer
- Manna, A. (2020). Salt smuggling in Eighteenth-century Bengal: A dilemma of boundaries, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 255-293, meer
- Kanda, S. (2020). Consumer preferences, markets and the state in Early Colonial Bengal with special reference to salt, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 295-324, meer
- Wright, S. (2020). The books of religion: Things, persons and consumption practices in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Bengal, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 325-366, meer
- Davini, R. (2020). Two British colonies in a comparative perspective: Georgia, Bengal, and the colonial production of raw silk, 1730-1830, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 367-395, meer
- Sengupta, A. (2020). Trans-textuality, translation and equivalence: Exploring the processes of textual transposition in the prologue of Alaol's Padmabati, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 397-434, meer
- Biswas, S. (2020). Representation of women in the Mangalkavyas, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 435-471, meer
- Choudhury, A.R. (2020). Bengal Vaishnavism: Early years and organization, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 473-509, meer
- Sengupta, A. (2020). The Sannyasi-Fakir, Chuar and Rangpore rebellion(s): Resistance, violence and 'banditry', 1770-1800, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 511-543, meer
- Eaton, N. (2020). Iconophilia?: Art, colonial collecting and missionary activity in India, in: Aquil, R. et al. An earthly paradise: trade, politics and culture in Early Modern Bengal. pp. 545-574, meer
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| Abstract |
This collection of articles on varied facets of early modern Bengal showcases state of the art in the field and hopes to encourage new research. The essays explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, the contributors to this volume, coming from diverse academic affiliations, and including several young researchers, have attempted to address various historiographical ‘black holes’ bringing in new material and interpretations. Early modern Bengal’s history tends to get overshadowed by the later developments of the nineteenth century. What this assortment of articles highlights is that this period needs to be studied afresh, and in depth. The region underwent rapid transformations as it got politically integrated with Northern India and its empires and economically with extensive global economic networks. Combined with its unique geography, the trajectory of this region in all spheres manifest an almost constant interplay of local and extra-local forces – be it in literature, art, economic domain, political and religious cultures – and considerable enterprise and ingenuity. Thus, a variety of themes – including travel accounts, Portuguese and Arakanese presence, early Dutch, French, Ostend companies’ forays into the region, artistic production in the Nizamat and later collections of art and missionaries, the English company state’s intrusions in local economy in salt and raw silk production and indigenous reactions and rebellions, consumption practices related to religious activities, circulation and translation of texts, representation of women in vernacular writings, and organization of religious traditions – have been analysed in this volume, with a wide ranging introduction tying up the themes to the broader historiographical issues and contexts. |
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