Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource Cambridge histories online
ISBN:
9781139053907
Series Statement:
The new Cambridge history of India / general ed. Gordon Johnson 8
Content:
In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight Indians who lived at different times during this period, and who each represented something particular about the Deccan. In the first chapter, for example, the author describes the demise of the regional kingdom through the life of a maharaja. In the second, a Sufi sheikh illustrates Muslim piety and state authority. Other characters include a merchant, a general, a slave, a poet, a bandit and a female pawnbroker. Their stories are woven together into a rich narrative tapestry, which illumines the most important social processes of the Deccan across four centuries. This is a much-needed book by the most highly regarded scholar in the field
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521254841
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Eaton, Richard Maxwell, 1940 - The new Cambridge history of India ; 1, The Mughals and their contemporaries ; 8: 1, The Mughals and their contemporaries: A social history of the Deccan, 1300 - 1761 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0521254841
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521254847
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521254847
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Dekhan
;
Sozialgeschichte 1289-1761
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521254847
