HIS282Y1 Lecture Notes - Jagat Seth, Delhi Sultanate, Nader Shah
Document Summary
Historians who translate indian texts had some idea of what india"s past had been, so we have to see how colonialists envisioned india. Also even though from the 13th: onwards there are united empires, like the delhi sultanate, there was still a big diversity in india. This is important when we try to understand how modern india comes about and this starts in the 18th c. The intermediary classes are important, revenue farmers, indigenous merchants, growing landed gentry and the warrior groups, all of them are now important elites. By the late 18th c. the society is becoming increasingly monetized and commercialized. So we see not only the mughal empire benefitting from this global trade but also the buying and selling of rights. At the end of the mughal empire the zamindar is really given from above, but by the beginning of the 18th c. people are buying and selling these rights.
