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South Asia: From Political Economy to Intellectual and Cultural Life
Author(s) -
PARTHASARATHI PRASANNAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00453.x
Subject(s) - dynamism , indigenous , politics , the arts , political science , political economy , economy , sociology , economics , law , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
From the 1970s the received wisdom of eighteenth‐century South Asian decline was replaced with a new vision of dynamism and change. Much of this work focused on issues of political economy, but more recently the study of the eighteenth century has broadened to include intellectual life, the arts and literature, in which there were lively indigenous traditions that were enriched from interaction with Europeans. Although political economy is less prominent in recent writings on eighteenth‐century South Asia, it cannot be omitted from the picture altogether, given that states and rulers were important patrons of many intellectual and artistic pursuits.