The development of petty commodity production in Mughal India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8414849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Currie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-24 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1982.10412634 |
| OpenAlex | W2329225722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
Argument, discussion and debate on what constitutes a mode of production abound in contemporary neo-Marxist literature and I do not intend to retrace those paths which, by now, must surely be very familiar. In an earlier paper, focusing on Mughal India, I argued that between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, India constituted a pre-capitalist class-divided social formation in which the largest share of the surplus product was appropriated from the direct producers by the Mughal state apparatus. This argument led me to identify the dominant mode of production at that time as tributary since the tributary mode, in pure form, entails the separation of society into two main classes: the peasantry (organized in communities); and the ruling class which, by monopolizing the functions of political organization, is able to exact a tribute from the mass of direct producers. In this paper, I am not primarily concerned with the identification of the dominant mode in Mughal India. My aim is rather to consider the extent to which developments occurred within the Mughal period in the sphere of petty commodity production. My discussion of developments within the sphere of petty commodity production is introduced by an analysis of the relationship between the Mughal state and society, that is, an analysis of the relationship between rulers and ruled
Argument (complex analysis · Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · Commodity · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Ruling class · Sociology · State (computer science · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2011 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |