The Early Modern in South Asia

Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History
Herausgeber: Bhargava, Meena; Nath, Pratyay

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What did South Asian modernity look like before the emergence of British colonialism? With a compelling introduction, the ten chapters in this volume recover the nature of this early modernity in philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781009215374
• ISBN-10: 100921537X
• Artikelnr.: 63761973

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: History and the Politics of Periodization Meena Bhargava and Pratyay Nath; Part I. Religion
Ideology
Identity: 2. Locating the Early Modern in South Asian Sufism Kashshaf Ghani; 3. Beginnings of Modernity in South Asia: Natural Philosophy in Persianate Islam Charles Ramsey; 4. Contestations and Negotiations: Early Modern Individualism in Jain Heterodoxy
c. 1470-c. 1770 Shalin Jain; Part II. Economy
Environment
Society: 5. Early Modernity and South Asian Economic History: Problematic
Periodization
Processes
and Possibilities Rajat Datta; 6. Markers of the Early Modern: Ecology
State
and Society in Rajasthan Mayank Kumar; 7. Through the Prism of Environmental History: Defining the Early Modern in South Asia Meena Bhargava; 8. The Early Modern Conundrum: Peninsular India and the Idea of Periodization in a 'Regional' Perspective Ranjeeta Datta; Part III. Politics
Law
War: 9. Fidalgoes
Soldados
Arrenegados: Portuguese Adventurers in Hugli and Early Modern Politics Radhika Chadha; 10. Law
Empire
and the New Julfan Armenians: The Early Modern in the Indian Ocean World Santanu Sengupta; 11. Was Mughal Warfare Early Modern? Pratyay Nath; Index.