Land and Sovereignty in India : Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya (9780521051804)

This original contribution to Indian history, focusing on contemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set of concepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically it examines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or 'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It traces the expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policy of 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslim expansion throughout its history. The book gives an interesting perspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British period as well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its most important successor polity, on its capacity for change and development in the intermediate sections of society, the land-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on the fiscal system.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 440 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 211 x 25mm | 570g
• Publication date 21 Feb 2008
• Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note Worked examples or Exercises
• ISBN10 0521051800
• ISBN13 9780521051804
• Bestsellers rank 1,964,719

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