Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

Ottomans:
Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman history: an introduction to the sources (1999), introduction, 1-26
Donald Quataert, Ottoman Empire 1700-1922
Erik J Zurcher, Turkey: a modern history (1997), pp. 1-80.
Virginia Aksan, Locating the Ottomans among early modern empires’, Journal of Modern History, 3, 1999.
Huri Islamoglu, ‘Modernities compared…the Qing and Ottoman empires, Journal of Early Modern History, 3, 1999.
Mughals:
J. F. Richards, The Mughal Empire, NCHI
Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.), The Mughal Empire.
Stephen P. Blake, Shahjahanabad. The sovereign city in Mughal India
J Heesterman, ‘Western expansion; Indian reaction: Mughal Empire and British Raj’, in J C Heesterman, The Inner
Conflict of Tradition, Chicago, 1985
Stewart Gordon The Marathas, Marauders and State Formation
Qing:
J. Spence, In search of modern China
R. Bin Wong, China Transformed
E. Rawski. The Last Emperors
Pomeranz, The Great Divergence
Philip Kuhn, Soulstealers
6 B R I T I S H E X P A N S I O N I N I N D I A (see also topic 8 below)
a) Why and how did the British move from trade to dominion in India? or
b) ‘British India was created by Indians’.
P J Marshall The making and unmaking of empires. Britain, India and America, 1750-83 (2005)
Lawrence Stone (ed.) An Imperial State at War, chapter 12 by Bayly
R Travers Ideology and empire in eighteenth century India (2007)
R Travers ‘The eighteenth century in India,’ Eighteenth century Studies’, 2008 (on line)
G Johnson (ed.) A Cultural Atlas of India
PJ Marshall ‘Reappraisals: the rise of British power in 18th-century India’, South Asia 19, 1 (1996);
Problems of Empire: Britain and India; Bengal: The British Bridgehead (NCHI, 1987), esp.
chapter 3; ‘British in Oudh’, MAS (1975); (ed.) OHBE, II, chapters 1, 22–24 by Marshall,
Ray, Bowen
P Nightingale Trade and Empire in Western India 1784–1806 (1970)
L Subramanian Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion
E Ingram (ed.) Two Views of British India [documents 1798–1801: Dundas and Wellesley] (1969)
H Bowen Revenue and Reform (1995)
R Barnett North India Between Empires, 1720–1801 (1980)
R Datta Society, Economy and the Market in Rural Bengal 1760–1800 (Delhi, 2000)
CA Bayly Indian Society and The Making of the British Empire (NCHI, 1987), chapters 1–3; Empire
and Information (1996), chs 2–3; ‘The first age of global imperialism 1760–1830’, JICH 26, 2
(1988)
Sudipta Sen Distant sovereignty
Nicholas Dirks The scandal of empire (2005)
T Raychaudhuri Chapter in Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2
DA Washbrook ‘Progress and Problems’, MAS (1988)
M Fisher Indirect Rule in India (1991), 1–66, 123–227, 269–363
“ & Alavi Essays in MAS 1 (1993)
Introduction, Washbrook, Travers in ‘The transition to Colonialism’, MAS, 2, 2004.