Circumambulations in South Asian history : essays in honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff / edited by Jos Gommans & Om Prakash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kolff, D. H. A., 1938-

Gommans, Jos J. L.

Prakash, Om, 1940-

Series:

Brill's Indological library ; v. 19.

Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asia--History.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This exciting and thought-provoking volume, written by a small number of outstanding scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia forms the best tribute thinkable to one of the leading scholars in the field of Indian History, Professor Dirk Kolff. Focusing on wider geographical as well as on more specific social and military aspects, the first section deals with issues of Islamic and European expansion in South Asia. The second section examines specific medieval topics such as military service and slavery, legitimacy and religious devotion. The third section represents Kolff's interest in colonial history and his more recent excursions into the realms of Subaltern and Cultural Studies. A must for every library.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; The Tides of the Indian Ocean, Islamization and the Dialectic of Coast and Inland; Shah Jahan wore Glasses: Remarks on the Impact of the Dutch East India Company on Northern India and Some Suggestions for Further Research; To be a Servant of His Catholic Majesty: Indian Troops of the Estado da Índia in the Eighteenth Century; The Trials of Captain Hackert and Engineer Andries Leslorant at the Malabar Council of War; Bedara Revisited: A Reappraisal of the Dutch Expedition of 1759 to Bengal

Between Fact and Fictions: Khoja Gregory alias Gurgin Khan, the "Evil Genius" of Mir QasimTwo Captains of the Jawnpur Sultanate; Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad; The Legitimation of Kingship in India: Bundelkhand; The Short Career of Walter Dickens in India; Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and its Historiography; The Idea of Modernity: European Progress for the Rest of the World?; Modern Media of Communication and Indigenous Knowledge in India and Europe: Towards an Anthropological Perspective

From Chariot to Atom Bomb: Armament and Military Organisation in South Asian HistoryBibliography of D.H.A. Kolff; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Bibliography of D.H.A. Kolff: p. [353]-358.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46760-6

9786610467600

1-4237-1196-3

90-474-0236-7

OCLC:

191931645

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402367 DOI