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Frontiers into borders : defining South Asias states, 1757-1857 / Ainslie T. Embree and Mark Juergensmeyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Embree, Ainslie Thomas, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asia--History--18th century.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--History--19th century.
- South Asia--Boundaries--History--18th century.
- South Asia--Boundaries--History--19th century.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- An insightful exploration of how the boundaries of the modern South Asian states were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, based on a careful examination of original materials in archives in England and India. This was the final project of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, and is destined to be a seminal text in the history of South Asian nation building.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Defining the Boundaries of South Asian States
- 2. Frontiers and Boundaries
- 2. Defining the Mughal Inheritance, 1757-98
- 3. The End of the Multi-State System, 1798-1833
- 4. Frontiers and the Mountain Wall, 1833-57
- Afterword: The Continuing Problem of Boundaries.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 14, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190990176
- 0190990171
- 9780190990183
- 019099018X
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