Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy - The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850

Klappentext This book firmly roots the history of the British Indian sepoy in India'a medieval past. Zusammenfassung This book studies the importance of North India's military labour market for state and sect formation! social change and the survival strategies of Hindustani villages! and shows how North Indian politics and decision making reflected the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Beyond the control of the state; 2. A Warlord's fresh attempt at empire; 3. The Rajput of pre-Mughal North India; 4. Politics and entrepreneurship of a 'spurious' Rajput clan; 5. Bhojpuri soldiering and the vicissitudes of Empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kolff Dirk H. a., Dirk H. A. Kolff, Dirk H.a. Kolff
• Assisted by: Faculty Of Oriental Studies (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521523059
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52305-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: University of Cambridge Orient
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous