Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honour of John F. Richards

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107300002

This book has brought together some of the foremost scholars of South Asian and global history, who were colleagues and associates of Professor John F. Richards, to discuss themes that marked his work as a historian in an academic career of almost forty years. It encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts. Frontier has often been conceived as a space of transformation marking new forms of economic organization, commodity trade, land settlement and state authority. The essays here underline the range of interests and approaches that marked Professor Richards' illustrious career - frontiers and state building; frontiers and environmental change; cultural frontiers; frontiers, trade and drugs; and frontiers and world history. The volume discusses issues from medieval to early modern South Asian history. It also reflects a concern for large-scale global processes and for the detailed specificities of each historical case as evident in Professor Richards' work.

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List of Contributors
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Foreword
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- By Gordon Johnson, University of Cambridge
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Introduction
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- By David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University
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1 - At Empire's End: The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth-century India
pp 1-38
- By Munis D. Faruqui, University of California
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2 - The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate
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- By Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi
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3 - ‘Silk Road, Cotton Road or … Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times’
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- By Stephen F. Dale, Ohio State University
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4 - The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India: Leakage or Resistance?
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- By Claude Markovits, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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5 - Opium and the Company: Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684–1796
pp 104-123
- By George Bryan Souza, University of Texas
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6 - The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation
pp 124-163
- By Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago
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7 - Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India
pp 164-199
- By Velcheru Narayana Rao, Emory University, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California
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8 - Becoming Turk the Rajput Way: Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative
pp 200-231
- By Cynthia Talbot, University of Texas
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9 - Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers
pp 232-254
- By Peter C. Perdue, Yale University
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10 - The Frontiers of Memory: What the Marathas Remembered of Vijayanagara
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- By Sumit Guha, Rutgers University
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11 - ‘Kiss My Foot,’ Said the King: Firearms, Diplomacy and the Battle for Raichur, 1520
pp 275-298
- By Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona
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12 - Frontiers of Family Life: Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
pp 299-317
- By Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
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13 - Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia
pp 318-346
- By Carl A. Trocki, Queensland University of Technology
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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Contributors
pp v-x

Foreword
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp xv-xvii

1 - At Empire's End: The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth-century India
pp 1-38

2 - The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the Early Delhi Sultanate
pp 39-71

3 - ‘Silk Road, Cotton Road or … Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times’
pp 72-80

4 - The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India: Leakage or Resistance?
pp 81-103

5 - Opium and the Company: Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684–1796
pp 104-123

6 - The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation
pp 124-163

7 - Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India
pp 164-199

8 - Becoming Turk the Rajput Way: Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative
pp 200-231

9 - Nature and Nurture on Imperial China's Frontiers
pp 232-254

10 - The Frontiers of Memory: What the Marathas Remembered of Vijayanagara
pp 255-274

11 - ‘Kiss My Foot,’ Said the King: Firearms, Diplomacy and the Battle for Raichur, 1520
pp 275-298

12 - Frontiers of Family Life: Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
pp 299-317

13 - Chinese Revenue Farms and Borders in Southeast Asia
pp 318-346

Publications
pp 347-351

Index
pp 352-362

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