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In this important book, Fischel brings us a compelling new perspective on the politics and culture of early modern India. Combining a broad sweep with careful attention to local circumstance, he brings central India's Deccan states centre-stage. He demonstrates how their history reveals plural and flexible forms of the state, and a language of vernacular politics, differing significantly from the imperial models that have long dominated our un...

Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires.