Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399526463 (ISBN)
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722–1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts (begams) of its ruling dynasty. Drawing on previously unexamined Persian sources, this book centres the begams of Awadh within a revised history of state-formation and conceptual change in pre- and early colonial India. In so doing, it posits the begams as essential, if contested, builders of both the Awadh regime and the Company state, and as ambivalent partners in forging evolving political economies and emerging conceptual languages of statehood and sovereignty in early colonial India.
Nicholas Abbott is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His research focuses on gender, politics, and state formation in Mughal and colonial India and has been published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Itinerario and Modern Asian Studies.
Note on Translation and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Map of Awadh and British India, c. 1856
Map of Awadh Region
Awadh Dynasty Genealogical Chart
Introduction: Gender, Language and the State in Early Colonial India
1. Women, Households and State-Making, c. 1650–1765
2. Consolidating ‘the Sarkar’ in Awadh, 1765–75
3. Contesting the Begam, Contesting the State, 1775–98
4. Bahu Begam’s Will and ‘the Rights of the State,’ 1798–1815
5. Queen Mothers, Wasiqadar Wives and the Rhetoric of Annexation, c. 1815–50
Conclusion and Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | States Before Modernity |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399526463 / 9781399526463 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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