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Circumambulations in South Asian history : essays in honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff / edited by Jos Gommans & Om Prakash

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 370 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Kolff, D. H. A., 1938-, Gommans, Jos J. L., and Prakash, Om, 1940-
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English.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Tides of the Indian Ocean, Islamization and the Dialectic of Coast and Inland -- Shah Jahan wore Glasses: Remarks on the Impact of the Dutch East India Company on Northern India and Some Suggestions for Further Research -- To be a Servant of His Catholic Majesty: Indian Troops of the Estado da Índia in the Eighteenth Century -- The Trials of Captain Hackert and Engineer Andries Leslorant at the Malabar Council of War -- Bedara Revisited: A Reappraisal of the Dutch Expedition of 1759 to Bengal., Between Fact and Fictions: Khoja Gregory alias Gurgin Khan, the "Evil Genius" of Mir Qasim -- Two Captains of the Jawnpur Sultanate -- Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad -- The Legitimation of Kingship in India: Bundelkhand -- The Short Career of Walter Dickens in India -- Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and its Historiography -- The Idea of Modernity: European Progress for the Rest of the World? -- Modern Media of Communication and Indigenous Knowledge in India and Europe: Towards an Anthropological Perspective., and From Chariot to Atom Bomb: Armament and Military Organisation in South Asian History -- Bibliography of D.H.A. Kolff -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary
This volume, written by a small number of scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia, forms a tribute to one of the leading scholars in the field of Indian history, Professor Dirk Kolff.
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1423711963 (electronic bk.)
9781423711964 (electronic bk.)
9047402367
9789047402367
1280467606
9781280467608
9786610467600
6610467609
9004131558
9789004131552
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Bibliography Note
Bibliography of D.H.A. Kolff: pages 353-358.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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