Brill's Indological Library

Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff

By: Jos Gommans (Volume Editor), Om Prakash (Volume Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 September 2003

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This exciting and thought-provoking volume, written by a small number of outstanding scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia forms the best tribute thinkable to one of the leading scholars in the field of Indian History, Professor Dirk Kolff.
Focusing on wider geographical as well as on more specific social and military aspects, the first section deals with issues of Islamic and European expansion in South Asia. The second section examines specific medieval topics such as military service and slavery, legitimacy and religious devotion. The third section represents Kolff's interest in colonial history and his more recent excursions into the realms of Subaltern and Cultural Studies.
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"...these contributions reflect a refreshingly wide range of historical themes." - Ravi Arvind Palat, in: Itinerario, 2005 "This challenging and illuminating volume would certainly be of use to scholars interested in the Dutch encounter in South Asia as well as those scholars engaged in the study of kingship, authority, and military organization in the subcontinent." - Jason Freitag, in: The Journal of Asian Studies

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Tides of the Indian Ocean, Islamization and the Dialectic of Coast and Inland	p. 29
Shah Jahan wore Glasses: Remarks on the Impact of the Dutch East India Company on Northern India and Some Suggestions for Further Research	p. 47
To be a Servant of His Catholic Majesty: Indian Troops of the Estado da India in the Eighteenth Century	p. 69
The Trials of Captain Hackert and Engineer Andries Leslorant at the Malabar Council of War	p. 105
Bedara Revisited: A Reappraisal of the Dutch Expedition of 1759 to Bengal	p. 117
Between Fact and Fictions: Khoja Gregory alias Gurgin Khan, the "Evil Genius" of Mir Qasim	p. 133
Two Captains of the Jawnpur Sultanate	p. 159
Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad	p. 179
The Legitimation of Kingship in India: Bundelkhand	p. 217
The Short Career of Walter Dickens in India	p. 233
Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and its Historiography	p. 251
The Idea of Modernity: European Progress for the Rest of the World?	p. 283
Modern Media of Communication and Indigenous Knowledge in India and Europe: Towards an Anthropological Perspective	p. 307
From Chariot to Atom Bomb: Armament and Military Organisation in South Asian History	p. 325
Bibliography of D.H.A. Kolff	p. 353
Index	p. 359
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