Format:
1 online resource (382 pages)
ISBN:
9781316223918
Content:
The book encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts.
Content:
Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- At Empire's End: The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth-century India -- The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate -- 'Silk Road, Cotton Road or … Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times' -- The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India: Leakage or Resistance? -- Opium and the Company: Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684-1796 -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation -- Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India -- Becoming Turk the Rajput Way: Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative -- Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers -- The Frontiers of Memory: What the Marathas Remembered of Vijayanagara -- 'Kiss My Foot,' Said the King: Firearms, Diplomacy and the Battle for Raichur, 1520 -- Frontiers of Family Life: Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds -- Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia -- Publications -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107034280
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107034280
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1816228
