India, Modernity and the Great Divergence : Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C. )

India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Problem of Quotation and Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction -- 0.1) Preliminary Remarks -- 0.2) Purpose of Study -- 0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources -- 0.4) Orientalism -- 0.5) Eurocentrism -- 0.6) Methodology -- 0.7) Modes of Production -- 0.8) Modernity -- 0.9) 'Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous' -- 0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization -- 0.11) Prospect -- 1 The Transitional State of India's History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- 1.1) Introduction -- 1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe -- 1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System -- 1.4) Technology -- 1.5) Documents and Manuscripts -- 1.6) Science and Learning -- 1.7) Printing -- 1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a 'Public Sphere' -- 1.9) King Serfoji II -- 1.10) Conclusion -- 2 Mysore -- 2.1) Preliminary Remarks -- 2.2) Economy -- 2.2.1) Introduction -- 2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations -- 2.2.3) Living Conditions -- 2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism -- 2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology -- 2.2.6) Property Rights -- 2.3) Administration -- 2.3.1) Introduction -- 2.3.2) Tipu's Administration -- 2.3.3) Revenues -- 2.3.4) Conclusion -- 2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure -- 2.4.1) Conclusion -- 2.5) Military Establishment -- 2.5.1) Introduction -- 2.5.2) Cavalry -- 2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery -- 2.5.4) Rocket Technology -- 2.5.5) Fortification -- 2.5.6) Marine -- 2.5.7) Conclusion -- 2.6) Education -- 2.6.1) Conclusion -- 2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization -- 2.7.1) Introduction