Roy S. Fischel

Local States in an Imperial World (eBook, ePUB)

Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires. Instead of the universalist and hierarchical vision typical of the language of empire, the sultanates presented another brand of state - one that prefers negotiation, flexibility and plurality of languages, religions and cultures. Building on theories of early modernity, empire, cosmopolitanism and vernaculars, Roy Fischel considers the components that shaped state and society: people, identities and idioms. He presents a frame for understanding the Deccan Sultanates as a rare case of the early modern non-imperial state, shedding light both on the region and on the imperial world surrounding it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474436106
• Artikelnr.: 72421362

Autorenporträt

Roy S. Fischel is Lecturer in the History of South Asia at SOAS, University of London. He has published articles in Purushartha, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World and New Perspectives on Turkey. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Mapping the Deccan
2. The Sultanates and the Deccan
3. Foreigners, locals and the world
4. Locality, vernacular and political language
5. Limitations of the Deccani system
6. Conclusion: Hoopoes and falcons
Bibliography.