Muslim Networks and Minor Sovereignty, c.1850–1950
by
Eric Lewis Beverley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
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 state' was not just...