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Aspects of state formation in South India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1650
The paper is broadly divided into two sections. The first section critically surveys the historiography on the formation and transformation of states, drawing upon examples, from not only southern India, but from Indonesia as well as mainland Southeast Asia. The central purpose is to show parallel t...
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Indian Economic Social History Review 1986; 23; 357
1986
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/00843.pdf |
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| 100 | |a Sanjay Subrahmanyam | ||
| 245 | |a Aspects of state formation in South India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1650 | ||
| 260 | |c 1986 | ||
| 260 | |b Indian Economic Social History Review 1986; 23; 357 | ||
| 520 | |a The paper is broadly divided into two sections. The first section critically surveys the historiography on the formation and transformation of states, drawing upon examples, from not only southern India, but from Indonesia as well as mainland Southeast Asia. The central purpose is to show parallel tendencies in the two historiographies, and to prepare the ground for a synthesis. We also note that, at least where the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are concerned, the two historiographies borrow from the same dictionary of ideas, without however referring to one another. The critique will focus in particular on the tendency to create a chronological sequence of state types by cobbling together borrowings from other contexts: the work of Europeanists in particular, and of Africanists to a more limited extent. Correspondingly, we note the failure to develop adequate Asianist models, or for that matter models that integrally discuss the evolution of state forms as opposed to mere cyclical fluctuations in them. The second section draws on documentary material, particularly from the archives of the Dutch and English East India Companies, to elucidate some elements of a model in the context of southern India, with a tentative conclusion on how well these fit the various Southeast Asian cases. | ||
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