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VIII. Islam and State Power in Pre-colonial South India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Susan Bayly
Affiliation:
(University of Cambridge)

Extract

The problem that I have been dealing with over the last few years is how it might be possible to create a historical context for the study of South Indian religion. Like a number of other South Indian historians I have been concentrating on the rise and development of new states and chiefdoms during the late pre-colonial period — that is in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of European expansion in the sub-continent which preceded the consolidation of British imperial rule. My own work has focused on the role of shrines and holy places within these pre-colonial domains and chiefdoms.

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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1988

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