{"product_id":"contestations-and-accommodations-suraj-bhan-bhardwaj-9780199462797","title":"Contestations and Accommodations: Mewat and Meos in Mughal India","description":"\u003cem\u003eContestations and Accommodations\u003c\/em\u003e charts the social, economic, and political history of the Mewat region of north India from the 13th to the early 18th centuries. Denting the conventional image of communities in medieval India as self-sufficient, changeless, and autonomous entities, it takes up the case of the Meos of Mewat to argue that these communities have regularly undergone profound socio-economic changes, which are an integral part of their histories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume offers a historically nuanced perspective of the evolution of the identity of Meos. Delineating Mewats ecology and its impact on the economy, it lays bare the process of community formation among the Meos in the wake of their peasantization and Islamicization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the contours of this transformation in the larger backdrop of the establishment of a centralized state under the Sultanate and the Mughal rule, this work also throws light on the emergence of a new class of zamindars, namely the Rajputs and the Jats, at the cost of the old landed elites, namely the Khanzadas and the Meosa phenomenon that generated significant agrarian turmoil in the rural society at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199462798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199462797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054714319103,"sku":"9780199462797","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4687fb0-cc5c-4418-97a5-8051f32c7439.jpg?v=1685031562","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contestations-and-accommodations-suraj-bhan-bhardwaj-9780199462797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}