Expanding frontiers in South Asian and world history : essays in honour of John F. Richards / edited by Richard M. Eaton, Munis D. Faruqui, David Gilmartin, Sunil Kumar.
Contributor(s): Eaton, Richard Maxwell. ed.
Material type: Text Language of document:EnglishSeries: Publisher: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Edition: Description: Description: xvii, 362 pages.ISBN: 9781107034280 (hardback).Other title: Uniform titles: Subject(s): Human ecology -- History. -- South Asia | South Asia -- BoundariesDDC classification: 954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science | 954 Ea85 Ex (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 245186 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Gordon Johnson -- Introduction / David Gilmartin -- At Empire's End : The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth-Century India / Munis D. Faruqui -- The Ignored Elites : Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate / Sunil Kumar -- "Silk Road, Cotton Road or...Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times" / Stephen F. Dale -- The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India : Leakage or Resistance? / Claude Markovits -- Opium and the Company : Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684-1796 / George Bryan Souza -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation / Muzaffar Alam -- Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India / Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Becoming Turk the Rajput Way : Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative / Cynthia Talbot -- Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers / Peter C. Perdue -- The Frontiers of Memory : What the Marathas Remembered of Vijayanagara / Sumit Guha -- "Kiss My Foot," Said the King : Firearms, Diplomacy, and the Battle for Raichur, 1520 / Richard M. Eaton -- Frontiers of Family Life : Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds / Patrick Manning -- Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki -- Publications: John Folsom Richards.
"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world history"--Provided by publisher.
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