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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2022
    January 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009215381
    9781009215374
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009215381
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 268 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Cross-Discipline History: General Interest, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    Area Studies, Cross-Discipline History: General Interest, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    Did modernity arrive in South Asia with British colonialism? Or was South Asia already modern by then? What might have that modernity looked like? The Early Modern in South Asia engages with these questions. It brings together ten chapters, which collectively trace the contours of South Asia's early modernity between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. They do this by examining the nature of historical change in various domains, including philosophy, warfare, law, environment, politics, violence, religion, and society. The chapters argue that in all these fields, there were noticeable developments during this period, marking a shift from the medieval to the early modern. The introductory chapter contextualizes this by analysing the politics of periodization in history-writing across the world. It discusses the meanings of the relatively new concept of early modernity and the implications of its use for how we understand historical change and continuity in South Asia.

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