Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars

North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870

By C.A. Bayly

1983

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This pioneering study, now known as the 'Bayly thesis', traces the evolution of the north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the 1857 'mutiny.'

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