Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy : The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450–1850
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
ISBN-10
0521523052
ISBN-13
9780521523059
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2002
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 21.60 x 1.40 cms
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This book studies the importance of North India's military labour market for state and sect formation, social change and the survival strategies of Hindustani villages, and shows how North Indian politics and decision making reflected the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry.
This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy to at least as far back as the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It also shows that, from the anthropological point of view, not the hierarchically arranged castes, but the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry were the central phenomena of North Indian politics and decision making.
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