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The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and persp
Contents
Foreword Veena DasIntroductionHuri Islamogly and Peter C. PerdueChapter 1 Empire and Nation in Camparative Pespective: Frontier Administration in Eighteenth-Century ChinaPeter C. PerdueChapter 2 Administrative Practices between Religious and zstate Law on the Eastern Frontiers of the Ottoman EmpireDina Rizk KhouryChapter 3 The Fate of Empires: Rethinking Mughals, Ottomans and HabsburgsSanjay Subrahmanyam Chapter 4 Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in the Qing and Ottoman EmpiresHuri IslamogluChapter 5 When Strong Men Meet: Recruited Punjabis and Constrained ColonialismRajit K. MazumderChapter 6 Administering the City, Policing CommercePeter CarrollChapter 7 Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Rule and Economic Development: The Qing Empire in Comparative PerspectiveR. Bin Wong Chapter 8 Heaven and the Administration of Things: Some Remarks on Law in the Tanzimat EraSerif MardinChapter 9 A World Made Simple: Law and Property in the Ottoman and Qing EmpiresMelissa MacauleyChapter 10 A History of Caste in South Asia: From Pre-colonial Polity to Biopolitical StateAnanya VajpeyiIndex
