Rethinking early modern India
By: edited by Richard B. Barnett.
Contributors: Barnett, Richard B.
Publisher: Manohar Publishers & Distributors
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: India -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Contributed conference articles focussing on diverse aspects of post-Mughal eighteenth century India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lineage, state, and symbolism of rule in late-eighteenth-century eastern Rajputana / Ecward S. Haynes; title: Maharaja Krishnacandra, Hinduism, and the kingship in the contact zone of Bengal / David L. Curley; title: Jagirdari in the eighteenth century: a case study of two Afghan families of Western Awadh / Iqbal Husain; title: Was there a crisis in mid-eighteenth century Bengal? / Sushil Chaudhury; title: Symbolic and structural constraints on the adoption of European-style military technologies in the eighteenth century / Stewart N. Gordon; title: "Passionate delineation and the mainstream of Indian paintaing" : the Mughal style and the schools of Rajasthan / Daniel J. Ehnbom; title: Piety, religion, and the old social order in the architecture of the later Mughals and their contemporaries / Catherine B. Asher; title: Making "manly" poety : the construction of Urdu's "Golden Age" / Carla Petievich; title: Technology and the question of elite intervention in eighteenth-century North India / Iqbal Ghani Khan; title: Amanat's indar sabha and nineteenth-century constructions of Indian cultural identity / Afroz Taj.