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Hyderabad, British India, and the world : Muslim networks and minor sovereignty, c. 1850-1950 /
"This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor st...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Fragmenting sovereignty
- 1. Minor sovereignties : Hyderabad among states and empires
- 2. The legal framework of sovereignty
- Part I. Ideas
- 3. A passage to another India : Hyderabad's discursive universe
- 4. Hyderabad and the world : bureaucrat-intellectuals and Muslim modernist internationalism
- Part II. Institutions
- 5. Moglai temporality : institutions, imperialism and the making of the Hyderabad frontier
- 6. Frontier as resource : law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire
- Part III. Urban Space
- 7. Remaking city, developing state : ethical patrimonialism, urbanism and economic planning
- 8. Improvising urbanism : sanitation and power in Hyderabad and Secunderabad
- Conclusion: Fragmented sovereignty in a world of nation-states.