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Rethinking early modern India
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- Summary
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Contributed conference articles focussing on diverse aspects of post-Mughal eighteenth century India.
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- Creator
- edited by Richard B. Barnett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2002
- Physical Details
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- 326 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788173043086, 8173043086
- OCLC
- ocm52321353
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Lineage, state, and symbolism of rule in late-eighteenth-century eastern Rajputana / Edward S. Haynes -- Maharaja Krishnacandra, 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" poety : the construction of Urdu's "Golden Age" / Carla Petievich -- Technology and the question of elite intervention in eighteenth-century North India / Iqbal Ghani Khan --
- Amanat's indar sabha and nineteenth-century constructions of Indian cultural identity / Afroz Taj