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Tall Tales an True:India Historiography and British Imperial Imaginings
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The Dreams of Kings: A Comparative Discussion of the Recorded Dreams of Tipu Sultan of Mysore and Peter the Great of Russia
No full textThe Kulasekhara Perumals of Travancore: History and State Formation in Travancore from 1671 to 1758. By Mark de Lannoy. Leiden: Research School CNWS, Leiden University, 1997. viii, 247 pp. Dfl. 45 (paper).
No full textA history of state and religion in India
No full textOffering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions whether the Indian state has generally been a benign, or disruptive, influence on public religious life, and evaluates the claim that the region has spawned a culture of practical toleration
Curiosities, conspicuous piety and the maker of time. some aspects of kingship in eighteenthâcentury South India
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