Essays on South Asian Society, Culture and Polities (II)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Emergent Indian Ocean Politics -- Missionary Encounter. Interaction between Indian Mission Servants, European Missionaries and Local Population in 18th Century South India -- Muslim Concepts of Local Power and Resistance. Islamic Militants in the Indian Frontier Province between 1900 and Independence -- The Indian Village as Perceived by Peasant Leaders in Late Colonial India -- Being Pashtun - Being Muslim Concepts of Person and War in Afghanistan