Politics of Patronage and Protest
Subtitle: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 22, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780195678963
Description: Through its analysis and investigation of the social history of the artisans of Jodhpur, this volume studies the historiography of the period to 'history from below', with its attendant conceptual issues relating to dominance, resistance, quotidian protest, and the nature and the limits of state and 'elite' hegemony.