Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires /
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily int...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623391 |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- Malwa : Land of many empires
- Zamindars : Lords of the marches
- Contractors : Engaging the state
- Transactions : Recording deals
- Disputes : Judges and courts
- Invaders : Marathas and the British
- Identity : Professionals or Warlords?