Caste and the British Merchant Government in Madras, 1639-1749

Roche, P.

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“…As the emerging towns of Bombay as well as Madras and the neighbourhood of Calcutta were earlier controlled by the Portuguese, the social character of these towns and their manoeuvrability for the colonial requirements of the English depended on the skills of social engineering that the latter resorted to in creating a supportive social base for them out of these Luso-Indians residing within the presidency towns.. Madras, where the English had set up their factory in 1640 and which became their main urban base in Coromandel was in the vicinity of the erstwhile Portuguese trading centre of Mylapore (Roche, 1975;Love, 1996), while Bombay, which emerged as the chief English port-town on the west coast was a Lusitanian enclave that the Portuguese king gave in 1661 as a part of the dowry for the marriage of his daughter Catherine of Braganza with Charles II of England. 45 Meanwhile Calcutta, where the English East India Company developed their commercial base with the acquisition of trading licence from the Nawab of Bengal in 1690 (Skinner, 1832& Nair, 1984, was in the neighbourhood of Portuguese enclave of Hughli.…”

Section: Towards Social Engineering and Primacy Of British Presidency Townsmentioning

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Maritime Histories, Indian Ocean and Port-Towns

Malekandathil

2020

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Maritime histories is a very important tool in the study of the development of Port towns in Pre-modern India - as it enables researchers to come closer to the crucial dynamics of the urban historical process, embracing aspects such as international politics, navigation, oceanic currents, oceanic society, maritime transportation, sea-borne trade and commerce, port-hinterland relations and heritage aligned with it. The changing social character of these port towns are also indicative of the changing roles that were ascribed to them and the type of meanings that the new power wielders inscribed onto their urban spaces. In the transition phase of eighteenth century, the English towns of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, which had a large number of Indo-Portuguese population and were relatively lying on the commercial periphery in the second half of seventeenth century, emerged as principal maritime exchange centres and towns in maritime India attracting traders, artisans, and financiers from other economic enclaves of India. This paper is an attempt to explore the dynamics of change and evolution of these port towns, not only as a conduit for providing trade and commerce, but also as a space for communication and the development of tangible and intangible heritage.

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Section: Towards Social Engineering and Primacy Of British Presidency Townsmentioning

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Maritime Histories, Indian Ocean and Port-Towns

Malekandathil

2020

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Company, state, and empire:

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Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India

Washbrook

1981

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Perhaps the most intransigent problem in the recent history of Indian society remains an adequate understanding of the processes of social change which took place under colonialism. As the continunig controversies within, as much as between, the traditions of modernization theory, Marxism, and the underdevelopment theory make plain, the Indian historical record is peculiarly difficult to grasp with conventional sociological concepts. In the study of Western European society, a focus on the evolution of legal ideas and institutions has proved a useful entry point to social history.The law may be seen to represent a set of general principles through which political authority and the state (however constituted) attempt to legitimize the social institutions and norms of conduct which they find valuable. As such, its history reflects the struggle in society to assume, control or resist this authority. Its study should help to reveal the nature of the forces involved in the struggle and to suggest the implications for social development of the way in which, at any one time, their struggle was resolved. The condition of the law may be seen to crystallize the condition of society. This, of course, could be said of any governing institution. But where the law becomes uniquely valuable is in that, because of its social function, the struggle around it is necessarily expressed in terms of general statements of principle rather than particular statements of private and discrete interest. At the most fundamental level, these principles demarcate the rules on which the contending parties seek to build their versions of society and provide useful clues to their wider, often undisclosed, positions.

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Caste and the British Merchant Government in Madras, 1639-1749

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