Parution: Nicolas J. Abbott, Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India. The Begams of Awadh, Édimbourg, Edinburg UP, 2024

N. Abbott, Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India. Examines wealthy Indian matriarchs as essential makers of states—and ideas of ‘the state’—in pre- and early colonial India Rethinks the political, economic and institutional transition to British colonial rule through the lives of wealthy matriarchs in a late-Mughal successor state Links the gendered politics of Indian ruling families with the formation of the colonial state and attendant ideas of sovereignty and statehood Trace...