Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India

The Begams of Awadh

Nicholas J Abbott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2646-3 (ISBN)

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Examines wealthy Indian matriarchs as essential makers of states and ideas of 'the state' in pre- and early colonial India

Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722 1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts (begams) of its ruling dynasty. Drawing on previously unexamined Persian sources, this book centres the begams of Awadh within a revised history of state-formation and conceptual change in pre- and early colonial India. In so doing, it posits the begams as essential, if contested, builders of both the Awadh regime and the Company state, and as ambivalent partners in forging evolving political economies and emerging conceptual languages of statehood and sovereignty in early colonial India.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2024
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-3995-2646-4 / 1399526464
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-2646-3 / 9781399526463
Zustand	Neuware