Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy

The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850

AvDirk H. A. Kolff,Faculty Of Oriental Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy to at least as far back as the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It also shows that, from the anthropological point of view, not the hierarchically arranged castes, but the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry were the central phenomena of North Indian politics and decision making.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-08
Mått:140 x 217 x 18 mm
Vikt:339 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521523059

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""Naukar", Rajput and Sepoy challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of military power and peasant society in northern India before British ascendance. It will add to our knowledge of Indian state formation and to the growing body of scholarship questioning the historical pervasiveness of caste in Indian society." Journal of Asian History

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Beyond the control of the state; 2. A Warlord's fresh attempt at empire; 3. The Rajput of pre-Mughal North India; 4. Politics and entrepreneurship of a 'spurious' Rajput clan; 5. Bhojpuri soldiering and the vicissitudes of Empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.