Contestations and Accommodations

Mewat and Meos in Mughal India

Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946279-7 (ISBN)

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The book charts the social, economic, and political history of Mewat from the 13th to the early 18th centuries. Denting the conventional image of communities in medieval India as self-sufficient, changeless, and autonomous entities, it takes up the case of Meo community of Mewat to argue that communities have regularly undergone profound socio-economic changes.

Contestations and Accommodations charts the social, economic, and political history of the Mewat region of north India from the 13th to the early 18th centuries. Denting the conventional image of communities in medieval India as self-sufficient, changeless, and autonomous entities, it takes up the case of the Meos of Mewat to argue that these communities have regularly undergone profound socio-economic changes, which are an integral part of their histories.

The volume offers a historically nuanced perspective of the evolution of the identity of Meos. Delineating Mewats ecology and its impact on the economy, it lays bare the process of community formation among the Meos in the wake of their peasantization and Islamicization.

Exploring the contours of this transformation in the larger backdrop of the establishment of a centralized state under the Sultanate and the Mughal rule, this work also throws light on the emergence of a new class of zamindars, namely the Rajputs and the Jats, at the cost of the old landed elites, namely the Khanzadas and the Meosa phenomenon that generated significant agrarian turmoil in the rural society at large.

Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi, India.

List of Tables; Acknowledgements; A Note on Spelling and Transliteration; Introduction; 1. State Formation in Mewat: Relationship of the; Khanzadas with the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal State,; and Other Regional Potentates; 2. Natural Settings: Potential and Constraints; 3. Social Formation of Meos: From Tribe to Caste; 4. Resources of Mewat: Appropriation and; Distribution; 5. The Bhomias; Conclusion; Appendix: Hasan Khan ki Katha;
Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2016
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 223 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-946279-8 / 0199462798
ISBN-13	978-0-19-946279-7 / 9780199462797
Zustand	Neuware