Local States in an Imperial World : Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan
Local States in an Imperial World :
Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan
by Roy S. Fischel
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1474436072 | 310 Pages | PDF | 18 MB
Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan
by Roy S. Fischel
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1474436072 | 310 Pages | PDF | 18 MB
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. Instead of the universalist and hierarchical vision typical of the language of empire, the sultanates presented another brand of state – one that prefers negotiation, flexibility and plurality of languages, religions and cultures.
Building on theories of early modernity, empire, cosmopolitanism and vernaculars, Roy Fischel considers the components that shaped state and society: people, identities and idioms. He presents a frame for understanding the Deccan Sultanates as a rare case of the early modern non-imperial state, shedding light both on the region and on the imperial world surrounding it.
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