Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The ethics of writing the Precolonial -- Ch1. A Dutch Painter in Bijapur: National sentiment and European-ness as reflected in the Relation between the Dutch and the Portuguese in the Early Century -- Ch2. The Queen and the Usurper: Deccanis vs. Westerners in Bijapur around 1636 -- Ch3. The Right and Left hand disputes in Chennapatnam in 1652-55: a Minimal group Experiment in Seventeenth-Century India -- Ch4. Saying one thing, doing another? Shivaji and Deccani Patriotism 1674-1680 -- Ch5. Anxiety in Aurangzeb's Deccan Marathas, Sidis and Keigwin;s Rebellion 1683-84 -- Ch6. Madanna, Akkanna and the Brahmin Revolution in Golkonda 1674-86 -- Conclusion Human Nature in a Seventeenth-Century Environment -- Epilogue Aurangzeb/Shivaji and the Eighteenth Century -- APPENDIX I DUTCH USAGE FOR MUSLIM AND HINDU -- APPENDIX II AURANZEB ON STRATAGEM -- APPENDIX III ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF SHIVAJI8217;S AND SIDI MAS8216;UD8217;S LETTERS TO MALOJI GHORPADE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATED REFERENCES -- REPOSITORIES OF UNPUBLISHED SOURCES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary
It is tempting to think of precolonial India as a harmonious society, but was it?
Related To
Entirely revised from the author's dissertation, Leiden University, 2008: Xenophobia and consiousness in seventeenth-century India : six cases from the Deccan
