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- ISBN 9781474436083
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Explores the concept of the non-imperial state, taking a spatial approach to early modern political identitiesFocusing 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.
Roy S. Fischel is Lecturer in the History of South Asia at SOAS, University of London. He has published articles in Purushartha, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World and New Perspectives on Turkey. This is his first book.
