Naukar, Rajput, and sepoy : the ethnohistory of the military labour market in Hindustan, 1450-1850
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.
University of Cambridge oriental publications, 43, no. 43
History
217 pages.
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Preface; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Beyond the control of the state; 2. A Warlord's fresh attempt at empire; 3. The Rajput of pre-Mughal North India; 4. Politics and entrepreneurship of a 'spurious' Rajput clan; 5. Bhojpuri soldiering and the vicissitudes of Empire; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Leiden University, 1983) under title: An armed peasantry and its allies : Rajput tradition and state formation, 1450-1850