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Expanding frontiers in South Asian and world history: essays in honour of John F. 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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New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.