India and the Early Modern World

Description

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries set within a global context. This book explores questions critical to our understanding of early modern India. How for instance were Indians’ religious beliefs their ways of life and the horizons of their learning changing over this period? What was happening in the countryside and towns to culture and the arts and to the state and its power? Were such experiences comparable or linked to those in other parts of the world? Can we speak of a global early modernity therefore within which India played an important role? Organised thematically each chapter engages with such key issues debates and concepts covering wide ground as it connects compares and contrasts developments witnessed across early modern South Asia to those around the globe. Drawing on the fruits of research in numerous fields over the past fifty years and rich in detail India and the Early Modern World is a pathbreaking volume written engagingly and accessibly with scholars students and non-specialists in mind.