Economy and demographic profile of urban Rajasthan : (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries)

"The volume deals with the inter-relations between agricultural production, agrarian trade, markets, towns and population of urban Rajasthan in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. This study also displays that how the higher receipts from sair-jihat (non-agrarian taxes) in various areas of Rajasthan, worked in the evolution of agrarian markets into qasbas. On the same line the volume shows the fall in industrial activity in the nineteenth century which broadly corresponds with the theory of de-industrialization and de-urbanization. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka."--Provided by publisher Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 List of Tables 13 List of Abbreviations 16 Acknowledgements 18 1. Nature of Rajasthani Sources on Urban History 22 2. Geography of Rajasthan 33 3. Urban Centres of Rajasthan 44 4. Growth of Urban Centres and Pattern of Agricultural Production in the Shekhawati Region 61 5. Sanganer: A Centre of Textile and Calico-printing in the Eighteenth Century 79 6. Population of Artisans and Menial Castes in Qasbas Sangod and Mangrol in Kota: A Decline in Textile Professions 106 7. Professional Groups, Textile Workers, Labour and Menial Castes in Qasba Churu 146 8. Trading Junctions of Marwar: A Study of Pali and Nagaur 177 9. Population Composition of Marwar between 1803 and 1843 204 10. Tod’s Estimation of Population of Some Urban Centres of Rajasthan 214 11. Conclusion 226 Bibliography 232 Index 250