Intro -- LOCAL STATES IN AN IMPERIAL WORLD -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Mapping the Deccan -- 2 The Sultanates and the Deccan -- 3 Foreigners, Locals and the World -- 4 Locality, Vernacular and Political Language -- 5 Limitations of the Deccani System -- 6 Conclusion: Hoopoes and Falcons -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires
