| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Foreword / Gordon Johnson -- Introduction / David Gilmartin -- At Empire's End : The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth-Century India / Munis D. Faruqui -- The Ignored Elites : Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate / Sunil Kumar -- "Silk Road, Cotton Road or ... Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times" / Stephen F. Dale -- The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India : Leakage or Resistance? / Claude Markovits -- Opium and the Company : Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684-1796 / George Bryan Souza -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation / Muzaffar Alam -- Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India / Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Becoming Turk the Rajput Way : Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative / Cynthia Talbot -- Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers / Peter C. Perdue -- The Frontiers of Memory : What the Marathas Remembered of Vijayanagara / Sumit Guha -- "Kiss My Foot," Said the King : Firearms, Diplomacy, and the Battle for Raichur, 1520 / Richard M. Eaton -- Frontiers of Family Life : Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds / Patrick Manning -- Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki -- Publications: John Folsom Richards |
| Summary |
"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world history"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- South Asia -- History
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Imperialism -- History
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World history.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Boundaries
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Commerce
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Human ecology
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Imperialism
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Politics and government
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International relations
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World history
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Grenzgebiet
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Handel
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Politik
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Boundaries -- History
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South Asia -- Politics and government
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South Asia -- Relations
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South Asia -- Commerce -- History
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| Subject |
South Asia
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Asien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eaton, Richard Maxwell
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Faruqui, Munis Daniyal, 1967-
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Gilmartin, David, 1949-
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Kumar, Sunil, 1956-2021.
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Richards, John F
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| ISBN |
9781316224625 |
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1316224627 |
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9781107300002 |
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1107300002 |
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9781316047996 |
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1316047997 |
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1316224422 |
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9781316224427 |
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1316224112 |
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9781316224113 |
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1316223914 |
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9781316223918 |
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