Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History

The book encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts.

List of contributors; Foreword Gordon Johnson; Introduction David Gilmartin; 1. At empire's end: the Nizam, Hyderabad and eighteenth-century India Munis D. Faruqui; 2. The ignored elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian secretarial class in the early Delhi sultanate Sunil Kumar; 3. 'Silk Road, Cotton Road or ¿ Indo-Chinese trade in pre-European times' Stephen F. Dale; 4. The political economy of opium smuggling in early-nineteenth-century India: leakage or resistance? Claude Markovits; 5. Opium and the company: maritime trade and imperial finances on Java, 1684¿1796 George Bryan Souza; 6. The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the formation of the Akbari Dispensation Muzaffar Alam; 7. Notes on political thought in medieval and early modern South India Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 8. Becoming Turk the Rajput way: conversion and identity in an Indian warrior narrative Cynthia Talbot; 9. Nature and nurture on imperial China's frontiers Peter C. Perdue; 10. The frontiers of memory: what the Marathas remembered of Vijayanagara Sumit Guha; 11. 'Kiss my foot,' said the King: firearms, diplomacy, and the battle for Raichur, 1520 Richard M. Eaton; 12. Frontiers of family life: early modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds Patrick Manning; 13. Chinese revenue farms and borders in Southeast Asia Carl A. Trocki; Publications John Folsom Richards; Index.