Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics Under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarājya

by André Wink

This original contribution to Indian history, focusing on contemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set of concepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically it examines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or 'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It traces the expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policy of 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521051800
• ISBN13: 9780521051804
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"