Local States in an Imperial World

Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan

Roy S. Fischel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474436083 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires. Instead of the universalist and hierarchical vision typical of the language of empire, the sultanates presented another brand of state – one that prefers negotiation, flexibility and plurality of languages, religions and cultures.
Building on theories of early modernity, empire, cosmopolitanism and vernaculars, Roy Fischel considers the components that shaped state and society: people, identities and idioms. He presents a frame for understanding the Deccan Sultanates as a rare case of the early modern non-imperial state, shedding light both on the region and on the imperial world surrounding it.

Roy S. Fischel is Lecturer in the History of South Asia at SOAS, University of London. He has published articles in Purushartha, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World and New Perspectives on Turkey. This is his first book.

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Acknowledgemetns

Introduction

Chapter 1. Mapping the Deccan

Chapter 2. The Sultanates and the Deccan

Chapter 3. Foreigners, locals and the world

Chapter 4. Locality, vernacular and political language

Chapter 5. Limitations of the Deccani system

Chapter 6. Conclusion: Hoopoes and falcons

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781474436083 / 9781474436083
Zustand	Neuware