Table of Contents

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.

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A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

About the Author

Eric Lewis Beverley is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Reviews

'Hyderabad formed the strongest Muslim link between colonial India and the world. By taking seriously its claims to sovereignty, Beverley carries Hyderabad beyond its colonial confines onto the larger stage of transnational history.' Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles

'Hyderabad was a seat of political experimentation and sub-imperial power that was both communal and cosmopolitan. More than a princely state, as Eric Lewis Beverley shows, it is an exemplar of alternative forms of territorialized sovereignty in British India and beyond.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign