Hyderabad, British India, and the World - Muslim Networks and Minor Sovereignty, C.1850-1950

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

This examination of the state of Hyderabad challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. It redefines the nature of political sovereignty in the era of colonialism, and identifies the close relationship between Muslim rule and political modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Lewis Beverley, Eric Lewis (State University of New York Beverley, Beverley Eric Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107091191
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09119-1
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India