Local States in an Imperial World

Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan

Roy S. Fischel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3608-3 (ISBN)

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Explores the concept of the non-imperial state, taking a spatial approach to early modern political identitiesFocusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires. Instead of the universalist and hierarchical vision typical of the language of empire, the sultanates presented another brand of state one that prefers negotiation, flexibility and plurality of languages, religions and cultures. Building on theories of early modernity, empire, cosmopolitanism and vernaculars, Roy Fischel considers the components that shaped state and society: people, identities and idioms. He presents a frame for understanding the Deccan Sultanates as a rare case of the early modern non-imperial state, shedding light both on the region and on the imperial world surrounding it.

Roy S. Fischel, Lecturer in the History of South Asia, SOAS, University of London.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	9 B/W illustrations 4 maps, 5 figures
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-3608-0 / 1474436080
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3608-3 / 9781474436083
Zustand	Neuware