Entrepreneurs in diplomacy: Maratha expansion in the age of the vakil
In eighteenth century South Asia, ‘political’ vakils are familiar to us principally as diplomats, active in the inter-state negotiations of the period. They were unlike their predecessors, the īlchī and hejib of earlier centuries, who were associated with the service of courts and states. Maratha...
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SAGE Publications
2020
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