Penumbral Visions: The Making of Polities in Early Modern South India

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Penumbral Visions examines the politics of South India during the transition from Vijayanagara to colonial rule. Through a series of case studies, it argues for the inadequacy of standard models of conquest and instead depicts a flexible set of polities that are gradually undermined over the course of the eighteenth century. The book draws on a wide variety of sources, combining European and local perspectives on questions ranging from economics and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195651421
• ISBN13: 9780195651423
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages