Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India

Informationen zum Autor Norbert Peabody is a Graduate Officer in Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Klappentext A fascinating 2003 study of the precolonial kingdom of Kota through its historical documents. Zusammenfassung In a fascinating 2003 book! Norbert Peabody analyses histories written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to understand the shifts in royal power which took place in Rajasthan. He concludes that different societies establish different co-ordinates to interpret their past! and that these co-ordinates will determine social and political outcomes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The King is dead, long live the King!: or Karmic Kin(g)ship in Kota; 2. In whose turban does the Lord reside?: Kings, Saints, and merchants in Western India; 3. Military fiscalism and the cultural economy of devotion in eighteenth century Rajasthan; 4. From 'Royal Service' to 'maternal devotion' during the Jhala Regency: local politics at the end of the Old Regime; 5. An incidental history of a supplementary article: Hindu Kin(g)ship and early Colonial rule.

Product details

• Authors: Norbert Peabody, Norbert (University of Cambridge) Peabody
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2002
• EAN: 9780521465489
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46548-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi; Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)