Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on boatmen and silk reelers as well as sailors and soldiers—a remarkable look at both indigenous and European workers—the story begins with the earliest accounts of the EIC’s dealings with hired la...
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Preface
Introduction
1 • Beruniyās of Bengal: Mobile Hired Work and the State in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth...
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Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University.
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