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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C.A. Bayly
Author · 11 books
Christopher Alan Bayly was a British historian specializing in British Imperial, Indian, and global history. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. He was knighted in 2007 for achievements as a historian.
