Give an outcome of major developments of eighteenth century india
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In the middle of the 1980s two books published within a few years of each other,
Christopher Bayly‟s Rulers, Townsmen and Bazars and Muzaffar Alam‟s The Crisis of Empire
in Mughal North India brought a renewed focus on the 18th century. The 18th century had
always been important in Indian history. Generally it was seen as a period of transition in
which the land-based Mughal empire gave way to the power of the sea-based British
empire. The consensus till the 1980s was that the moribund Mughal state had collapsed due
to its own contradictions and the English East India Company representing the aggressive
mercantilist forces of the West had taken advantage of the ensuing confusion to subjugate
and reduce India to a colony. The transition was not simply political – one regime replacing
another, but also economic: the pre-modern economy of the Mughals was forcibly linked to
world capitalist markets to India‟s detriment. For Indian historians, the 18th century
signalled the beginning of a new historical era of pillage and colonial rule.
The historian Seema Alavi has suggested that the new writings on the 18th century have
created a divide. Those studying the process of the decline of the Mughals – which happened
in the first few decades of the 18th century – have a tendency to extend their views and
apply them to the entire century. For instance, these historians argue that with the collapse
of the centralized Mughal state structure the important political, economic and social
institutions tied with the state also crumbled, bringing unrest and havoc through the
century. The newer historians studying the later period paint a less gloomy picture.
Christopher Bayly‟s Rulers, Townsmen and Bazars and Muzaffar Alam‟s The Crisis of Empire
in Mughal North India brought a renewed focus on the 18th century. The 18th century had
always been important in Indian history. Generally it was seen as a period of transition in
which the land-based Mughal empire gave way to the power of the sea-based British
empire. The consensus till the 1980s was that the moribund Mughal state had collapsed due
to its own contradictions and the English East India Company representing the aggressive
mercantilist forces of the West had taken advantage of the ensuing confusion to subjugate
and reduce India to a colony. The transition was not simply political – one regime replacing
another, but also economic: the pre-modern economy of the Mughals was forcibly linked to
world capitalist markets to India‟s detriment. For Indian historians, the 18th century
signalled the beginning of a new historical era of pillage and colonial rule.
The historian Seema Alavi has suggested that the new writings on the 18th century have
created a divide. Those studying the process of the decline of the Mughals – which happened
in the first few decades of the 18th century – have a tendency to extend their views and
apply them to the entire century. For instance, these historians argue that with the collapse
of the centralized Mughal state structure the important political, economic and social
institutions tied with the state also crumbled, bringing unrest and havoc through the
century. The newer historians studying the later period paint a less gloomy picture.
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