Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India
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- ISBN 9781399526463
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722 1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts (begams) of its ruling dynasty. Drawing on previously unexamined Persian sources, this book centres the begams of Awadh within a revised history of state-formation and conceptual change in pre- and early colonial India. In so doing, it posits the begams as essential, if contested, builders of both the Awadh regime and the Company state, and as ambivalent partners in forging evolving political economies and emerging conceptual languages of statehood and sovereignty in early colonial India.
Nicholas Abbott is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His research focuses on gender, politics, and state formation in Mughal and colonial India and has been published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Itinerario and Modern Asian Studies.
