دانلود کتاب An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Early Modern Bengal
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2: Trails of Travellers: Descriptions of an Early Modern Region in Some European Accounts
Chapter 3: Marauders of the Sundarbans and the Role of the Island of Sagor, 1600-1800
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4: Beyond the Company and its Commerce: Reviewing the Presence of the VOC in Mughal Bengal, 1600-1700
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5: The Ostend Company’s Worlds: Courtly Interactions and Local Life in Eighteenth-century Bengal
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6: The Organization and Operation of the French East India Company in Bengal
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7: Imaging of Courtly Life: Bengal Nizamat in Eighteenth-century Murshidabad Paintings
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8: Salt Smuggling in Eighteenth-century Bengal: A Dilemma of Boundaries
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9: Consumer Preferences, Markets and the State in Early Colonial Bengal with Special Reference to Salt
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10: The Books of Religion: Things, Persons, and Consumption Practices in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Bengal
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11: Two British Colonies in a Comparative Perspective: Georgia, Bengal and the Colonial Production of Raw Silk, 1730-1830
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12: Trans-textuality, Translation and Equivalence: Exploring the Processes of Textual Transposition in the Prologue of Alaol’s Padmabati
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13: Representation of Women in the Mangalkavyas
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14: Bengal Vaishnavism: Early Years and Organization
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15: The Sannyasi-Fakir, Chuar and Rangpore Rebellion(s): Resistance, Violence and ‘Banditry’, 1770-1800
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16: Iconophilia?: Art, Colonial Collecting and Missionary Activity in India
List of Contributors
Index