HIS282H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Standing Army, Tipu Sultan, Jagir
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18th century : emergence of the modern age centre of gravity of world affairs shifts from the east ( asia) to the west ( england) modernity: recent or new. 1789, and everything that came before it is early modern(europe) or pre modern outside of. Europe modernity as a set of values: what is traditional vs modern modernity as enlightenment : ideological criteria changes in philosophy. Modernity as political economic: creation the nation state. Modernity as european: morden world comes from outside from india. Did one culture dominate influence and transform the world. Or did transformations i nthe wotld create the context for the rise of british dominance. Decline in mughal empire caused by : war. 1757-1759- british conquest of bengal political economic trends commericialization and rade increasing commercial groups: Armed local magnates seizing jagirs and lands. Moved from collecting taxes to asserting proprietary rights over land taxing local markets and trade: successor states :
