Norbert Peabody

Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating 2003 study of the precolonial kingdom of Kota through its historical documents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521465489
• ISBN-10: 0521465486
• Artikelnr.: 23183203

Autorenporträt

Norbert Peabody is a Graduate Officer in Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The King is dead, long live the King!: or Karmic Kin(g)ship in Kota; 2.
In whose turban does the Lord reside?: Kings, Saints, and merchants in
Western India; 3. Military fiscalism and the cultural economy of devotion
in eighteenth century Rajasthan; 4. From 'Royal Service' to 'maternal
devotion' during the Jhala Regency: local politics at the end of the Old
Regime; 5. An incidental history of a supplementary article: Hindu
Kin(g)ship and early Colonial rule.