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Jul 1, 2020 · By bringing Asian perspectives to the scholarship of early modern international history, the paper counters the belief that ‘South Asia’ emerged as a product of colonization and decolonization ...
5. Early Modernity and South Asian Economic History: Problematic, Periodization, Processes, and Possibilities 103 Rajat Datta 6. Markers of the Early Modern: Ecology, State, and Society in Rajasthan 124 Mayank Kumar 7. Through the Prism of Environmental History: Defining the Early Modern in South Asia 141 Meena Bhargava
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of South Asia: . History of South Asia – South Asia refers to the broader region in and around the historical Indian subcontinent, which includes the contemporary geopolitical entities of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the island nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Already during the last decade there has been an explosion of books – both monographs and edited volumes – on South Asia that focus on the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries and use the phrase ‘early modern’ in their titles to designate this period.111 Many of these volumes are collections of essays, representing collective efforts ...
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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.
Mar 20, 2018 · The region known as South Asia today emerged as the locus for order-building only in the early modern period (~1500–1750) as a “region” of Islamicate Asia. I demonstrate this through a cognitive-strategic process based on the interactions between polities and resources within and outside of South Asia.
Hannah Archambault is a scholar of early modern South Asia with a particular interest in borderlands, migration, military cultures, and gender. She completed her dissertation, titled “Geographies of Influence: Two Afghan Military Households in 17th & 18th Century South India,” and received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2018.
