How 'dynasty' became a modern global concept : intellectual histories of sovereignty and property

The modern concept of ‘dynasty’ is a politically-motivated modern intellectual invention. For many advocates of a strong sovereign nation-state across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in France, Germany, and Japan, the concept helped in visualizing the nation-state as a primordial entity sealed by the continuity of birth and blood, indeed by the perpetuity of sovereignty. Hegel’s references to ‘dynasty’, read with Marx’s critique, further show how ‘dynasty’ encoded the intersection of sovereignty and big property, indeed the coming into self-consciousness of their mutual identification-in-difference in the age of capitalism. Imaginaries about ‘dynasty’ also connected national sovereignty with patriarchal authority. European colonialism helped globalize the concept in the non-European world; British India offers an exemplar of ensuing debates. The globalization of the abstraction of ‘dynasty’ was ultimately bound to the globalization of capitalist-colonial infrastructures of production, circulation, violence, and exploitation. Simultaneously, colonized actors, like Indian peasant/‘tribal’ populations, brought to play alternate precolonial Indian-origin concepts of collective regality, expressed through terms like ‘rajavamshi’ and ‘Kshatriya’. These concepts nourished new forms of democracy in modern India. Global intellectual histories can thus expand political thought today by provincializing and deconstructing Eurocentric political vocabularies and by recuperating subaltern models of collective and polyarchic power.PostprintPeer reviewe

Indiens Stellung im britischen Weltreich : ein Vortrag

gehalten von Lord Curzon of Kedleston; autorisierte Übersetzung von W.K.Schriftenreihe des Originals: Koloniale Abhandlungen, Heft 34/3

\u3ci\u3eThe Pamirs and the source of the Oxus\u3c/i\u3e

The author undertook two distinct journeys. The first was to the Indian frontier states of the Hindu Kush, the Pamirs, and the Oxus, and the second was to Afghanistan. The distance covered on horseback or on foot in the two was just short of 1800 miles. In Afghanistan the Amir arranged horses for him along the route. The book is a description of the author\u27s travel experiences

War poems and other translations

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Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian question /

Includes index."Bibliography of Central Asia": p. 440-468.Mode of access: Internet

Russia in Central Asia in 1889, and the Anglo-Russian question.

"The nucleus of this book--less than one-third of its present dimentions--appeared in the shape of a series of articles, entitled 'Russia in Central Asia', which (were) contributed to the 'Manchester Courier' and other... newspapers, in ... November and December 1888, and January 1889."--Pref."Bibliography of Cental Asia": p. 440-468.Mode of access: Internet

Frontiers;

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