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Penumbral Visions: The Making of Polities in Early Modern South India
Penumbral Visions The Making of Polities in Early Modern South India Author:Sanjay Subrahmanyam Penumbral Visions examines the politics of South India during the transition from Vijayanagara to colonial rule. Through a series of case studies, it argues for the inadequacy of standard models of conquest and instead depicts a flexible set of polities that are gradually undermined over the course of the eighteenth century. The book draws on a ... more »wide variety of sources, combining European and local perspectives on questions ranging from economics and political culture to historiography.« less