Land Sovereignty India Agrarian Society Politics under Eighteenth… 9780521051804

Land and Sovereignty in IndiaAgrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svar?jya\nAuthor(s): Andr Wink\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521051804, 978-0521051804\nSynopsis\nThis 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 expansion throughout its history. The book gives an interesting perspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British period as well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its most important successor polity, on its capacity for change an.