Situating Indian History for Sarvepalli Gopal Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/situatingindianhOOOOunse Situating Indian History for Sarvepalli Gopal edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Romila Thapar DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS 1986 Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP LONDON GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN MELBOURNE AUCKLAND and associates in BEIRUT BERLIN IBADAN MEXICO CITY © Oxford University Press 1986 Printed in India by Urvashi Press, 49/3 Vaidwara, Meerut 250002 and published by R. Dayal, Oxford University Press YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110001 Contents A Note on the Contributors vii Introduction I Urban Centres in Early Medieval India: An Overview 8 by B. D. Chattopadhyaya Urbanization in Medieval Tamil Nadu 34 by R. Champakalakshmi Colonial State and Agrarian Society 106 by Neeladri Bhattacharya Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century 146 by Muzaffar Alain The Colonial State, Capital and Labour: Bombay 1919-19 31 171 by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Nationalist Historians’ Interpretations of the Indian National Movement 194 by Bipan Chandra The Indian Capitalist Class: Aspects of its Economic, Political and Ideological Development in the Colonial Period, 1927-47 239 by Aditya Mukherjee Understanding Indian Communists: A Survey of Approaches to the Study of the Communist Movement in India, 1920-47 288 by Bhagwan Josh Old Indo-Aryan to Middle Indo-Aryan: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 331 by K. Meenakshi VI Contents Society and Historical Consciousness: The Itihasa-Purana Tradition by Rotnila Thapar Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Study of Ancient Indian Myths by Kunal Chakrabarti The Intellectual History of Colonial India: Some Historiographical and Conceptual Questions by K. N. Panikkar Societal Designs in History: The West and India by Satish Saberwal