Investigates the alliance between the British administration and the Muslim landed magnates who dominated the countryside and provides valuable insights into th

Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previ

This ground-breaking study offers the first full-length critical examination of H. Diel's "Doxographi Graeci" (1879), focussing on the doxographer Aetius, whose

Describes the accomplishments of the British explorer and scholar, and the relationship between him and his unconventional wife.