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Rethinking early modern India /

Contributed conference articles focussing on diverse aspects of post-Mughal eighteenth century India.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barnett, Richard B.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2002.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Amanat's indar sabha and nineteenth-century constructions of Indian cultural identity / Afroz Taj.
  • Lineage, state, and symbolism of rule in late-eighteenth-century eastern Rajputana / Edward S. Haynes
  • Maharaja Krisnacandra, Hinduism, and the kingship in the contact zone of Bengal / David L. Curley
  • Jagirdari in the eighteenth century: a case study of two Afghan families of Western Awadh / Iqbal Husain
  • Was there a crisis in mid-eighteenth century Bengal? / Sushil Chaudhury
  • Symbolic and structural constraints on the adoption of European-style military technologies in the eighteenth century / Stewart N. Gordon
  • "Passionate delineation and the mainstream of Indian painting" : the Mughal style and the schools of Rajasthan / Daniel J. Ehnbom
  • Piety, religion, and the old social order in the architecture of the later Mughals and their contemporaries / Catherine B. Asher
  • Making "manly" poetry : the construction of Urdu's "Golden Age" / Carla Petievich
  • Technology and the question of elite intervention in eighteenth-century North India / Iqbal Ghani Khan