TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beverley,Eric Lewis
TI  - Hyderabad, British India, and the world: Muslim networks and minor sovereignty, c. 1850-1950 
SN  - 9781107091191 (hardback)
U1  - 954.91/82035 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - India
KW  - Hyderabad (State)
KW  - History
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - City planning
KW  - Hyderabad
KW  - Hyderabad (India : State)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Relations
KW  - British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-337) and index; 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
N2  - "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 a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim intellectual and political networks, Hyderabad was indicative of the fragmentation of sovereignty between multiple political entities amidst empires. By exploring connections with the Muslim world beyond South Asia, law and policy administration along frontiers with the colonial state and urban planning in expanding Hyderabad City, Beverley presents Hyderabad as a locus for experimentation in global and regional forms of political modernity. This book recasts the political geography of late imperialism and historicises Muslim political modernity in South Asia and beyond"--
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