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Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450 1850

Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450 1850

Kolff, Dirk H. a.
Kolff, D. H. a.
Dirk H. a., Kolff

Hardcover

Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Book 43

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryTechnology & EngineeringIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0521381320
ISBN13: 9780521381321
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 17 1990
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labor market for state and sect formation, for social change and for the energetic survival strategies of the village of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy back to the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It also shows that, from the anthropological point of view, it was not the hierarchically arranged castes, but rather the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry that were the central phenomena of North Indian politics and decision making.

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