LATEST FROM MANOHAR THE COROMANDEL COAST AND ITS HINTERLAND Economy, Society and Political System READINGS IN EARLY INDIAN HISTORY (AD 1500-1600) General Editor: B.D. Chattopadhyaya S. Jeyaseela Stephen LAND SYSTEM AND RURAL SOCIETY IN 1997, 270p. Rs. 500 EARLY INDIA This book examines the interaction between the ou • u- n ^ c i r ^ ,, ... ,,. i T j- Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (ed) Coromandel coast and hinterland in south India during the sixteenth century. Topical issues such as 1997, 380p. Rs. 450 the territorial, geographical and administrative units, political structures, the agrarian economy, manu- Contributions in the volume highlight the growth facturing sector, markets, inland trade, overseas and changing contours of historiography with commerce, the impact of the Portuguese business, regard to the agrarian history of early India. The prices, wages, economic growth and social changes PaPers dealwith aspects of rural settlements, the are dealt in this work by assessing the relative concept of village community, the problem of strength and weakness of the Coromandel system, ownership of land, agrarian change, the structure The key aspects of internal development of of rural sociology and rural unrest. Coromandel are linked with the opening of the Portuguese colonial world. Forthcoming titles in the series — Women in Early Indian Society Kum Kum Roy — Urbanization in Early India Himanshu Prabha Ray FIVE PU]\JABI CENTURIES Kum Kum Roy Polity, Economy, Society and Culture — Urbanization in Early India c. 1500-1990 Himanshu Prabha Ray Indu Banga (ed) ————————————————————————————— 1997, 624p. Rs. 800 LOCAL POtmCS AND INDIAN A multi-disciplinary volume with an exceptionally NATIONALISM wide sweep, has contributions covering polity, Midnapur 1919-1944 economy and society in the Mughal Punjab, state- „., . „, , , , . . , ,. ' , Bidyut Chakrabarty formation, economy, society and literature under Sikh rule, religion and art in the hills, pahari painting; 1997, 244p. Rs. 375 political, economic and socio-cultural develop- Midnapur is probably one of the few Indian districts ments, urban society and politics, communitarian, where the natiOnalist movement created and secular and national consciousness, agrarian and sustained social alliances among the contending urban economy, demographic and social change, dasses in the context of an anti imperial struggle. Punjabi literature and gender relations during with the help of exciting new material particularly colonial rule; and political economy, agricultural about the disturbances in 1942, the author shows growth, Punjabi speaking state movement in post how these political concerns were linked to the independence period. politics of Bengal more generally and their COTTON AND FAMINE IN BERAR 1850-1900 relationshiP with mainstream nationalism. Laxman D. Satya INDIAN CARTOGRAPHY 1997, 344p. Rs. 600 A Historical Perspective The book examines the forceful impact of the P'L< n Industrial revolution on the material condition of 1997, I44p. Rs. 425 the masses and how it changed social relations in _. , , , . . , , c „ , . . .... The study, based on original records of Government Berar, the prime cotton producing region within rTJ. , ,. /-TJ. r . _ , .. , ... f , of India, traces the evolution or Indian maps from the empire. It also studies the activities of the , , r , , , . ;, . . . ., . . f , , the earliest times to the coming of the British in colonial state in the context of a world economy _ 6 driven by the cotton crisis due to American civil war n ia' and addresses the critical linkage between cotton, Fills a Ion8 standing gap in the study of Indian British imperialism and famine in Berar. cartography. MANOHAR PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS 2/6, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 Phones : 327 5162 & 328 4848 • Fax : 326 5162 email: MANBOOKS@GIASDL01.VSNLNET.IN