Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

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Acknowledgements

Publisher’s Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Markets: The Eighteenth-century Economic Terrain
2. Consumption in an Urban Milieu
3. Pilgrimage Complex: Economy and Religion
4. The Connecting Network: Transport Systems in a Mobile Society
5. The Nizamat State: Multiple Roles in the Changing Contours of Politics
6. Trade: The Early Company State and the Phase of Transition I
7. Communication, Labour, Ecology: The Early Company State in the Phase of Transition II

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