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Contributed articles previously published in several journals.
List of contents
Foreword Veena Das
Introduction
Huri Islamogly and Peter C. Perdue
Chapter 1 Empire and Nation in Camparative Pespective: Frontier Administration in Eighteenth-Century China
Peter C. Perdue
Chapter 2 Administrative Practices between Religious and zstate Law on the Eastern Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire
Dina Rizk Khoury
Chapter 3 The Fate of Empires: Rethinking Mughals, Ottomans and Habsburgs
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Chapter 4 Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in the Qing and Ottoman Empires
Huri Islamoglu
Chapter 5 When Strong Men Meet: Recruited Punjabis and Constrained Colonialism
Rajit K. Mazumder
Chapter 6 Administering the City, Policing Commerce
Peter Carroll
Chapter 7 Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Rule and Economic Development: The Qing Empire in Comparative Perspective
R. Bin Wong
Chapter 8 Heaven and the Administration of Things: Some Remarks on Law in the Tanzimat Era
Serif Mardin
Chapter 9 A World Made Simple: Law and Property in the Ottoman and Qing Empires
Melissa Macauley
Chapter 10 A History of Caste in South Asia: From Pre-colonial Polity to Biopolitical State
Ananya Vajpeyi
Index
Summary
The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and persp
