Eric Lewis Beverley

Hyderabad, British India, and the World

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781107463080
• ISBN-10: 1107463084
• Artikelnr.: 50448584

Autorenporträt

Eric Lewis Beverley is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: fragmenting sovereignty; 1. Minor sovereignties: Hyderabad
among states and empires; 2. The legal framework of sovereignty; Part I.
Ideas: 3. A passage to another India: Hyderabad's discursive universe; 4.
Hyderabad and the world: bureaucrat-intellectuals and Muslim modernist
internationalism; Part II. Institutions: 5. Moglai temporality:
institutions, imperialism and the making of the Hyderabad frontier; 6.
Frontier as resource: law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire;
Part III. Urban Space: 7. Remaking city, developing state: ethical
patrimonialism, urbanism and economic planning; 8. Improvising urbanism:
sanitation and power in Hyderabad and Secunderabad; Conclusion: fragmented
sovereignty in a world of nation-states.