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East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of the 18th century. It traces the role of trade and commerce as followed by the European EICs to achieve their economic ends territorial expansion and control of productive resources. The author portrays the nature contents volume and changing trends of trade and commerce over a decisive period of Indian economic history. The volume discusses the chief constituents of trade in general exports investments imports and private trade and traders of Madras from 1746 to 1803. Rich in archival resources this is an essential resource for administrators students scholars and researchers of colonial history and modern Indian economic history besides British trade history. | East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

GBP 130.00
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Beyond Macaulay Education in India 1780–1860

Beyond Macaulay Education in India 1780–1860

Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of Indian education in the early colonial era — from the establishment of the Calcutta Madrasa in 1780 until the end of the East India Company’s rule and the beginning of the administration by the crown in 1860. The book challenges the conventional theory that the British administration imposed English language and modern education on Indians. Based on rich archival evidence it critically explores data on 16 000 indigenous schools and shows that indigenous education was not oral informal and Brahmin-centric but written formal and egalitarian. The author highlights the educational policies of the colonial state and the way it actively opposed the introduction of modern education and privileged Brahmins. By including hitherto unused 41 Educational Minutes of Macaulay the volume examines his educational ideas and analyses why the colonial state closed down every school established by him. It also contrasts the educational ideas of the British elites and the Orientalists with dissenting Scottish voices. The book discusses post-Macaulayan educational policies and the Wood’s Despatch of 1854 as well as educational institutions during the revolt of 1857. It covers indigenous education in Sanskrit Persian Arabic and modern Indian vernaculars the impact of the colonial policies on these schools and traces the history of education in Bengal North India and Madras and Bombay Presidencies as also the role of caste and religion in society. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education history of education Indian history South Asian history colonial history sociology political history and political science. | Beyond Macaulay Education in India 1780–1860

GBP 38.99
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