January, 2022.
The months have rather slipped by, with focus on three big projects. The first is my World History teaching text for Oxford University Press. I had no idea just how hard it would be to produce a radically different text based on narratives of actual people and themes that were universal. The two-volume effort is short (half the length of ordinary World History textbooks) and written in coversational style and a single voice (mine). The book has gone through five drafts in more than three years with substantial changes in each draft. I've actually written 19 chapters to yield 14 useable ones. . 2021 was wrestling with transitions, flow, clarity and making sure that the chapters guided students into far away regions and long ago periods without losing them. The book is now out and Oxford University Press is beginning the marketing process.
The second big project was designing and constructing a new study for Sara, convertible to guest accomodations. The two of us (with help from family members) did the demolition of the old structure and then built the floors, walls, roof, set the windows and doors, planned the electricity layout, wired the boxes and switches and main panel, installed the lights. I dug the 30' trenches for water, gas, electricty, and septic. All we subcontracted was the plumbing, the commercial shallow-pitch roof, and the drywall. It's within a month of finishing the whole project.
The third project was a return to India to do the research for Sara's a Fulbright grant about the future of libraries in India. Unfortunately, we she was only six months into the grant when we were airlifted out of India because of Covid. Fulbright has been very supportive and encouraged her to re-apply when it is safe to travel in India.
Two smaller projects have also made good progress. The first is a translation of my book, The Marathas, into Marathi, which came out in late 2017 from Diamond Press, received good reviews in the Marathi press, and is selling quite well. It's now on the recommended list for History MA students in Maharashtra. A second of my books, When Asia was the World, has also been translated into Marathi. The translations are by Ravi Kulkarni, who lives in Pune, with discussion by Shirish Chikte. Both of them are old friends and we have worked on the translation together on WhatsAp. It has received very good reviews, such as a full-page review
December, 2018.
My book "There and Back: Twelve of the Great Routes of Human History" is out and available from Oxford University Press . The chapers are stuctured like my last couple of books. We explore a route through the memoir or letters of someone who actually traveled the route. Routes are grouped by type and function rather than - as is usually done - by the cities or empires they connect. I found that pilgrimage routes work the same way regardless of the religion to which they are sacred. The Hajj is a lot like the pilgrimage to Compostella in western Spain. The Nile, the Rhine, and the Mississippi function quite similarly even though they are distant from each other geographically. Rivers carry goods from the heartland to a port at the mouth. They were fought over as boundaries and are the stuff of myth and legend. The book finds that the mental side of routes - hopes, fears, expectations, myths - were every bit as important to their definition as were physical features or yearly ecoogical patterns. In the next couple of days I'll post chapters on this website.
An academic article is out. It's entitled "Moral Hinterlands of South Asian Port Cities" and is in the spring, 2018 issue of Asian Review of World Histories.
Abstract: This paper explores relations between Western Indian cities and the supply areas connected to them. It begins with a discussion of the term “hinterland,” frequently used to describe these relations. As we shall see, the term greatly simplifies a complex set of relationships between cities, smaller towns, and rural villages. We will consider three case studies of money advanced against future assets. The first concerns the relation of thirteenth-century Jewish traders to their indigenous spice suppliers on the Malabar Coast; the second, the relation of eighteenth-century East India Company traders to cloth producers; and the third, the relation of Pune investors to taxation areas against which they loaned money to the Maratha government. In a time of slow communications and transportation the central problem was “trust at a distance”; the operative relationships were as much emotional and moral as economic. Finally, I will suggest a new way to conceptualize cities and their hinterlands.
December, 2017
I've carved and constructed eight new folk art automatons. All have headed to either my gallery in Omeena, MI (Tamarack) or my gallery in Cincinnati (Caza Sikes). Go to "More" on this website for some stills of my work and a link to short movies of the recent pieces in action.
A couple of new articles have come out. The first is “In the Aura of the King: Trans-Asian, Trans-Regional, and Deccani Royal Symbolism” in South Asian Studies, Special Issue : Reuse of the Past: Producing the Deccan, 1300 – 1700 (ed. Ajay K. Rao) Vol. 32, Number 1 (May, 2016) 42-53. The second is “Babur: Salt, Social Closeness and Friendship” in Studies in History (Special Issue on Friendship, eds. Emma Flatt and Daud Ali) Vol. 33, No. 1, (January, 2017) 82-97.
The months have rather slipped by, with focus on three big projects. The first is my World History teaching text for Oxford University Press. I had no idea just how hard it would be to produce a radically different text based on narratives of actual people and themes that were universal. The two-volume effort is short (half the length of ordinary World History textbooks) and written in coversational style and a single voice (mine). The book has gone through five drafts in more than three years with substantial changes in each draft. I've actually written 19 chapters to yield 14 useable ones. . 2021 was wrestling with transitions, flow, clarity and making sure that the chapters guided students into far away regions and long ago periods without losing them. The book is now out and Oxford University Press is beginning the marketing process.
The second big project was designing and constructing a new study for Sara, convertible to guest accomodations. The two of us (with help from family members) did the demolition of the old structure and then built the floors, walls, roof, set the windows and doors, planned the electricity layout, wired the boxes and switches and main panel, installed the lights. I dug the 30' trenches for water, gas, electricty, and septic. All we subcontracted was the plumbing, the commercial shallow-pitch roof, and the drywall. It's within a month of finishing the whole project.
The third project was a return to India to do the research for Sara's a Fulbright grant about the future of libraries in India. Unfortunately, we she was only six months into the grant when we were airlifted out of India because of Covid. Fulbright has been very supportive and encouraged her to re-apply when it is safe to travel in India.
Two smaller projects have also made good progress. The first is a translation of my book, The Marathas, into Marathi, which came out in late 2017 from Diamond Press, received good reviews in the Marathi press, and is selling quite well. It's now on the recommended list for History MA students in Maharashtra. A second of my books, When Asia was the World, has also been translated into Marathi. The translations are by Ravi Kulkarni, who lives in Pune, with discussion by Shirish Chikte. Both of them are old friends and we have worked on the translation together on WhatsAp. It has received very good reviews, such as a full-page review
December, 2018.
My book "There and Back: Twelve of the Great Routes of Human History" is out and available from Oxford University Press . The chapers are stuctured like my last couple of books. We explore a route through the memoir or letters of someone who actually traveled the route. Routes are grouped by type and function rather than - as is usually done - by the cities or empires they connect. I found that pilgrimage routes work the same way regardless of the religion to which they are sacred. The Hajj is a lot like the pilgrimage to Compostella in western Spain. The Nile, the Rhine, and the Mississippi function quite similarly even though they are distant from each other geographically. Rivers carry goods from the heartland to a port at the mouth. They were fought over as boundaries and are the stuff of myth and legend. The book finds that the mental side of routes - hopes, fears, expectations, myths - were every bit as important to their definition as were physical features or yearly ecoogical patterns. In the next couple of days I'll post chapters on this website.
An academic article is out. It's entitled "Moral Hinterlands of South Asian Port Cities" and is in the spring, 2018 issue of Asian Review of World Histories.
Abstract: This paper explores relations between Western Indian cities and the supply areas connected to them. It begins with a discussion of the term “hinterland,” frequently used to describe these relations. As we shall see, the term greatly simplifies a complex set of relationships between cities, smaller towns, and rural villages. We will consider three case studies of money advanced against future assets. The first concerns the relation of thirteenth-century Jewish traders to their indigenous spice suppliers on the Malabar Coast; the second, the relation of eighteenth-century East India Company traders to cloth producers; and the third, the relation of Pune investors to taxation areas against which they loaned money to the Maratha government. In a time of slow communications and transportation the central problem was “trust at a distance”; the operative relationships were as much emotional and moral as economic. Finally, I will suggest a new way to conceptualize cities and their hinterlands.
December, 2017
I've carved and constructed eight new folk art automatons. All have headed to either my gallery in Omeena, MI (Tamarack) or my gallery in Cincinnati (Caza Sikes). Go to "More" on this website for some stills of my work and a link to short movies of the recent pieces in action.
A couple of new articles have come out. The first is “In the Aura of the King: Trans-Asian, Trans-Regional, and Deccani Royal Symbolism” in South Asian Studies, Special Issue : Reuse of the Past: Producing the Deccan, 1300 – 1700 (ed. Ajay K. Rao) Vol. 32, Number 1 (May, 2016) 42-53. The second is “Babur: Salt, Social Closeness and Friendship” in Studies in History (Special Issue on Friendship, eds. Emma Flatt and Daud Ali) Vol. 33, No. 1, (January, 2017) 82-97.
MONASTIC ASIA PROJECT
In 2008 Matthew Cioleck (Anthropology, Australian National University) and I began a project to GIS locate as many a possible of the Buddhist monasteries across Asia, which were founded between 1 CE and 1200 CE. It remains an academic labor of love without grant funding but has has benefitted from and welcomes the expertise of scholars around the world. The data collected on more than 1050 monasteries include, besides location, textual and archeological references, the branch or school of Buddhism practiced, and information on contacts with other monasteries. This conveniently useable database covers monasteries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, China, Japan and Korea. Data base development is still quite active. We would particularly welcome expertise to document and locate monasteries in China.
Here is the link to the Monasteries Project monastic-asia.wikidot.com
Here is the link to the Monasteries Project monastic-asia.wikidot.com
BOOKS BY STEWART GORDON
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
The human drama of a shipwreck unfolds on several levels: the imagined anguish of those aboard the doomed vessel, personal or valuable objects spilling onto the ocean floor, the persistence and courage of divers searching for the wreck, and the recovery of fabulous treasure and objects that evoke poignant stories.
This book takes these human shipwreck dramas as its beginning point to explore the equally human and exciting wider drama of the world to which the ship belonged. Why was it carrying its cargo? How did the ship connect to ports and cities, empires, rich people and ordinary folk? What can the cargo tell us about connections in this world? Who risked financing the trade? Who traveled out of necessity, faith, or curiosity?
Each of the sixteen chapters features a single historical shipwreck. Some wrecks have been raised and now form the centerpieces of museums. Others have been replicated and sailed to the ends of the earth. Yet others are known only from letters or reports of their loss. The wrecks date from thousands of years before the Common Era to the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1985. The geographical spread is wide, from the outriggers of Polynesia to the Viking craft of Scandinavia. Overall, the book traces the merging of many smaller maritime worlds to the one interconnected maritime world of today.
University Press of New England, May, 2015. If you are going to buy the book I recommend your local bookstore, rather than on line. We all need local bookstores.
This book takes these human shipwreck dramas as its beginning point to explore the equally human and exciting wider drama of the world to which the ship belonged. Why was it carrying its cargo? How did the ship connect to ports and cities, empires, rich people and ordinary folk? What can the cargo tell us about connections in this world? Who risked financing the trade? Who traveled out of necessity, faith, or curiosity?
Each of the sixteen chapters features a single historical shipwreck. Some wrecks have been raised and now form the centerpieces of museums. Others have been replicated and sailed to the ends of the earth. Yet others are known only from letters or reports of their loss. The wrecks date from thousands of years before the Common Era to the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1985. The geographical spread is wide, from the outriggers of Polynesia to the Viking craft of Scandinavia. Overall, the book traces the merging of many smaller maritime worlds to the one interconnected maritime world of today.
University Press of New England, May, 2015. If you are going to buy the book I recommend your local bookstore, rather than on line. We all need local bookstores.
_Our images of slavery, such as field labor on cotton plantations, white masters and black slaves, a densely-crowded slave ship, and heroes leading slaves to freedom come from slavery in the Americas. The unfortunate result of this intense focus on Atlantic slavery is to emphasize its unique, special, and “peculiar” character. Slavery was, however, not a singular phenomenon of European colonialism. It has been characteristic of every continent and every historic time period in a wide variety of societies, including herding, agricultural, and industrial cultures. Slavery began before the writing of human records and remains with us today.
SHACKLES OF IRON focuses on four case studies of slavery outside the Atlantic world: Ancient Athens, the East African slave trade to the Near East and India, Barbary slavery, and contemporary slavery. Both the Introduction, Conclusions, and extensive Bibliography connect these cases to slavery in the larger world. Forthcoming from Hackett, March, 2016)
Hackett, February, 2016
SHACKLES OF IRON focuses on four case studies of slavery outside the Atlantic world: Ancient Athens, the East African slave trade to the Near East and India, Barbary slavery, and contemporary slavery. Both the Introduction, Conclusions, and extensive Bibliography connect these cases to slavery in the larger world. Forthcoming from Hackett, March, 2016)
Hackett, February, 2016
Long before Marco Polo went east, Asia had its own intrepid travelers...
Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from 500 to 1500CE, at a time when Asia was the world. He describes the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers - the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science and culture.
2008, De Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-81556-0, Hardcover 288 pages, Photo insert
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- a 7th century Chinese Buddhist monk who learned Sanskrit in India;
- a Tunisian Jew who set up shop on the Malabar Coast of India and traded spices and other goods with merchants in the Middle East and Africa;
- an Islamic scholar who logged over 75,000 miles traveling from Baghdad to Spain, Africa, and China.
Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from 500 to 1500CE, at a time when Asia was the world. He describes the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers - the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science and culture.
2008, De Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-81556-0, Hardcover 288 pages, Photo insert
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_This set of historical essays challenges many cherished assumptions about the Mughal Empire and the British colonial period in India.
"...demolishes many a thesis about social groups such as Bhils and marauding bands like Thugs and the Pindaries. After sifting through voluminous archival evidence Dr. Gordon suggests that far from being chaotic or anarchic, the 18th century administration of the Marathas was quite sophisticated." Arvin Deo, Indian Express
"Gordon's approach... is to survey the assertions about various social groups and institutions produced by the British during the colonial period and then, with the additional of indigenous sources in Marathi or Persian, to develop his own more thoughtful analysis...the book reflects some of the best work about this region during this period." Michael H. Ficher, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
1994, Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-564748-3, Softcover, 223 pages
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"...demolishes many a thesis about social groups such as Bhils and marauding bands like Thugs and the Pindaries. After sifting through voluminous archival evidence Dr. Gordon suggests that far from being chaotic or anarchic, the 18th century administration of the Marathas was quite sophisticated." Arvin Deo, Indian Express
"Gordon's approach... is to survey the assertions about various social groups and institutions produced by the British during the colonial period and then, with the additional of indigenous sources in Marathi or Persian, to develop his own more thoughtful analysis...the book reflects some of the best work about this region during this period." Michael H. Ficher, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
1994, Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-564748-3, Softcover, 223 pages
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In this volume in the New Cambridge History of India, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents a new comprehensive history of one of the most colorful and least understood kingdom's of India; the Maratha polity. The kingdom was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century and sprea across much of India during the following century. It was subsequently conquered by the British in the nineteenth century, but nonetheless provided the basis for the formation of many princely states.
Since Inda's independence (1947) a hughe mass of administrative documents of the Matatha polity and many important family paper have become available to scholars. Stewart Gordon draws on this material to explore the origin of the Marathas in the Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan, therir emergence as the elite afamilies, patterns of loyalty, and strategies for maintaining legitamcy. He traces how the Maratha armies developed from bands of lightly armed calvary to European style infantry and artillary and accesses the economics that funded the polity, especially taxation and credit. Finally, Dr. Gordon considers the legacy of the Matatha polity: the profound effects it hand upon revenue administration, law, education, trade paterns, migration, and the economic and social makeup of Central India Gujarat and Maharashtra.
In the book, Stewart Godron presents a picture of everyday life in the Maratha polity, as well an important example of the dynamics of kingdoms during the period. The Marathas 1600-1818 is widely read by students and specialist in Indian military and colonial history, and also by anthropologists.
Update: A Marathi-language edition will appear in 2016. Stay tuned.
1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-26883-4, Hardcover, 202 pages
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Since Inda's independence (1947) a hughe mass of administrative documents of the Matatha polity and many important family paper have become available to scholars. Stewart Gordon draws on this material to explore the origin of the Marathas in the Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan, therir emergence as the elite afamilies, patterns of loyalty, and strategies for maintaining legitamcy. He traces how the Maratha armies developed from bands of lightly armed calvary to European style infantry and artillary and accesses the economics that funded the polity, especially taxation and credit. Finally, Dr. Gordon considers the legacy of the Matatha polity: the profound effects it hand upon revenue administration, law, education, trade paterns, migration, and the economic and social makeup of Central India Gujarat and Maharashtra.
In the book, Stewart Godron presents a picture of everyday life in the Maratha polity, as well an important example of the dynamics of kingdoms during the period. The Marathas 1600-1818 is widely read by students and specialist in Indian military and colonial history, and also by anthropologists.
Update: A Marathi-language edition will appear in 2016. Stay tuned.
1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-26883-4, Hardcover, 202 pages
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The glamour and excitement of two great American ocean liners.
Enjoy the classic ocean liners the SS Constitution and the SS Independence through the human stories of those who built them, sailed on them, and worked on them.
More than 175 photographs include 25 of Grace Kelly en route to become Princess of Monaco, plus onboard shots of Harry Truman, Mae West, Ernest Hemingway, Anthony Quinn, and dozens of other celebrities.
From conception through construction, from the Atlantic to their final resting places, you will learn the inside story of these great ships.
1998, Prow Press, ISBN 0-9667163-0-7, Softcover, 138 pages, illustrated
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Enjoy the classic ocean liners the SS Constitution and the SS Independence through the human stories of those who built them, sailed on them, and worked on them.
More than 175 photographs include 25 of Grace Kelly en route to become Princess of Monaco, plus onboard shots of Harry Truman, Mae West, Ernest Hemingway, Anthony Quinn, and dozens of other celebrities.
From conception through construction, from the Atlantic to their final resting places, you will learn the inside story of these great ships.
1998, Prow Press, ISBN 0-9667163-0-7, Softcover, 138 pages, illustrated
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The tradition of honourific robing entered India with the first Muslim incursions in the 11th century but quickly spread to Hindu courts. In this ceremony, a ruler, or one holding authority from the ruler, presented a full set of elegant silk clothing - turban, shirt, wrap, and outer robe - to one he wished to honour. Termed khil'at in Arabic, this important courtly ritual has been largely neglected in historical writing on South Asia. This engaging book examines the historical value, geographic spread, and general importance of this custom in India, emphasizing the changing contexts and the complex character of the ritual.
As the essays in the volume show, there were some unusual feature of the khil'at that challenge traditional assumption about medieval and colonial India and the nature of imperial ideology.
First, the ceremony had no religious overtones and was used in relations of fealty across communal boundaries.
Second, the ceremony both displaced local honourific rituals and functioned across a broad world that
stretched from China to North Africa, thereby diversifying what is conventionally thought of as South Asian
culture.
Third, the khil'at ceremony, infused as it was with politics and powers had considerable situational ambiguity
of meaning, giving rise to the notion of contested "culture" in precolonial South Asia.
With contributions from well known scholars and comprehensive introductory and concluding essays by Dr. Gordon, this pioneering study appeals to both specialist and general readers with an interest in medieval Indian history, the colonial encounter, and South Asian ritual and custom.
2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-566322-5, Hardcover, 154 pages, Illustrated
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As the essays in the volume show, there were some unusual feature of the khil'at that challenge traditional assumption about medieval and colonial India and the nature of imperial ideology.
First, the ceremony had no religious overtones and was used in relations of fealty across communal boundaries.
Second, the ceremony both displaced local honourific rituals and functioned across a broad world that
stretched from China to North Africa, thereby diversifying what is conventionally thought of as South Asian
culture.
Third, the khil'at ceremony, infused as it was with politics and powers had considerable situational ambiguity
of meaning, giving rise to the notion of contested "culture" in precolonial South Asia.
With contributions from well known scholars and comprehensive introductory and concluding essays by Dr. Gordon, this pioneering study appeals to both specialist and general readers with an interest in medieval Indian history, the colonial encounter, and South Asian ritual and custom.
2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-566322-5, Hardcover, 154 pages, Illustrated
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Robes and Honor is a fascinating exploration of the possible common origin and subsequent developments of investiture across medieval Christianity and medieval Islam. The ceremony in all its cultural variety was much more than the public adoption of a high-value textile as symbol of office; within a culture, robing established a personal link 'from the hand' of the giver - the king, pope, head of sect, ambassador - to the receiver - noble, general, official, or acolyte.
This volume challenges current thinking on religious and regional boundaries of 'cultures,' raises semiotic issues about imagined communities, and address problems of kingship.
2001, Palgrave Press, ISBN 0-312-21230-5, Hardcover, 394 pages
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This volume challenges current thinking on religious and regional boundaries of 'cultures,' raises semiotic issues about imagined communities, and address problems of kingship.
2001, Palgrave Press, ISBN 0-312-21230-5, Hardcover, 394 pages
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"Symbolic and Structural Constraints on the Adoption of European-Style Military Technologies in the Eighteenth Century" in Richard B. Barnett (ed), Rethinking Early Modern India (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002) 155-178.
2002, Manohar Publishers, ISBN-10: 8173043086, Hardcover, 326 pages
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"Symbolic and Structural Constraints on the Adoption of European-Style Military Technologies in the Eighteenth Century" in Richard B. Barnett (ed), Rethinking Early Modern India (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002) 155-178.
2002, Manohar Publishers, ISBN-10: 8173043086, Hardcover, 326 pages
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“Maratha Patronage of Muslim Religious Institutions" in David Gilmartin (ed), Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia (University of Florida, 2001).
2001, University Press of Florida, ISBN-10: 0813024870, Softcover, 384 pages
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“Maratha Patronage of Muslim Religious Institutions" in David Gilmartin (ed), Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia (University of Florida, 2001).
2001, University Press of Florida, ISBN-10: 0813024870, Softcover, 384 pages
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“Hindu, Muslim and the ‘Other’ in Eighteenth Century India”, in Sushil Mithal (ed), Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Early Modern India (Lanham:Lexington Books, 2003), 11-30.
2003, Lexington Books, ISBN-10: 0739106732, Hardcover, 136 pages
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“Hindu, Muslim and the ‘Other’ in Eighteenth Century India”, in Sushil Mithal (ed), Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Early Modern India (Lanham:Lexington Books, 2003), 11-30.
2003, Lexington Books, ISBN-10: 0739106732, Hardcover, 136 pages
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"War, the Military, and the Environment: Central India, 1560 – 1820” in Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell (eds) , Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War (Oregon State Press, 2004) 42-64.
2004, Oregon State Press, ISBN-13: 978-0870710476, Softcover, 280 pages
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"Burhanpur: Entrepot and Hinterland: 1650-1750", Indian Economic and Social History Review, Special Issue, (Jan., 1989). Reprinted in Merchants, Markets, and the State in Early Modern India, Sanjay Subramanian (ed.), (Oxford University Press: Bombay, 1990).
1990, Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0195625692, Hardcover, 284 pages
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"Burhanpur: Entrepot and Hinterland: 1650-1750", Indian Economic and Social History Review, Special Issue, (Jan., 1989). Reprinted in Merchants, Markets, and the State in Early Modern India, Sanjay Subramanian (ed.), (Oxford University Press: Bombay, 1990).
1990, Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0195625692, Hardcover, 284 pages
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"Kinship and Pargana in Eighteenth Century Khandesh", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 12, 4 (1985), 371-397. (with John Richards), reprinted in P.J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Evolution of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2003).
2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0195678147, Softcover, 464 pages
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2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0195678147, Softcover, 464 pages
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“Epistemologies Concerning the Past in Maharshtra” in D. N. Jha and Eugenia Vanina (eds), Mind Over Matter: Essays on Mentalities in Medieval India (New Delhi: Tulika Publishers, 2008).
2008, Tulika Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-8189487478, Hardcover, 325 pages
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“Epistemologies Concerning the Past in Maharshtra” in D. N. Jha and Eugenia Vanina (eds), Mind Over Matter: Essays on Mentalities in Medieval India (New Delhi: Tulika Publishers, 2008).
2008, Tulika Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-8189487478, Hardcover, 325 pages
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"Bhils and the Idea of a Criminal Tribe in Nineteenth Century India", in Anand A. Yang (ed) Crime and Criminality in British India, Association for Asian Studies Monograph 42 (1985), 140-161.
1985, Association of Asian Studies, ISBN-13: 978-0816509515, Hardcover, 192 pages
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"Bhils and the Idea of a Criminal Tribe in Nineteenth Century India", in Anand A. Yang (ed) Crime and Criminality in British India, Association for Asian Studies Monograph 42 (1985), 140-161.
1985, Association of Asian Studies, ISBN-13: 978-0816509515, Hardcover, 192 pages
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"Legitimacy and Loyalty in Some Successor States of the Eighteenth Century", in J.F. Richards (ed), Kingship and Authority in South Asia, Publication Series 3, (South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978), 286 - 303.
1978, University of Wisconsin, ASIN: B00138OC52, Softcover303 pages
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"Legitimacy and Loyalty in Some Successor States of the Eighteenth Century", in J.F. Richards (ed), Kingship and Authority in South Asia, Publication Series 3, (South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978), 286 - 303.
1978, University of Wisconsin, ASIN: B00138OC52, Softcover303 pages
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“A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800", in Kenneth R. Hall (ed), Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c.1400-1800. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008).
2008, Lexington Books, ISBN-13: 978-0739128350, Hardcover, 370 pages
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“A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800", in Kenneth R. Hall (ed), Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c.1400-1800. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008).
2008, Lexington Books, ISBN-13: 978-0739128350, Hardcover, 370 pages
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Contributor, The Reader's Companion to Military History, Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996) 10, 42-43, 47, 313-314, 352-353, 365.
1996, Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN-13: 978-0618127429, Harcover, 592 pages
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"Robes of Honour: A 'Transactional' Kingly Ceremony", in Meena Bhargava ed)Exploring Medieval India: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Politics, Economy, Religion, (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010) 148-169.
2010, Orient Black Swan Private Limited, ISBN 978-81-250-4103-0, 506 pages.
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2010, Orient Black Swan Private Limited, ISBN 978-81-250-4103-0, 506 pages.
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"Revenue System of the Marathas Under Nana Phadnis" in A. R. Kulkarni, et al (eds), Mediaeval Deccan History, (Bombay: Popular Prakasham, 1996) 297-307.
1996, Prakasham PVT. LTD., ISBN 81-7154-579-3, 316 pages
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1996, Prakasham PVT. LTD., ISBN 81-7154-579-3, 316 pages
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