{"product_id":"women-wealth-and-the-state-nicholas-j-abbott-9781399526470","title":"Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India: The Begams of Awadh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722-1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts (\u003ci\u003ebegam\u003c\/i\u003es) of its ruling dynasty. Drawing on previously unexamined Persian sources, this book centres the \u003ci\u003ebegam\u003c\/i\u003es of Awadh within a revised history of state-formation and conceptual change in pre- and early colonial India. In so doing, it posits the \u003ci\u003ebegam\u003c\/i\u003es as essential, if contested, builders of both the Awadh regime and the Company state, and as ambivalent partners in forging evolving political economies and emerging conceptual languages of statehood and sovereignty in early colonial India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas J. Abbott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399526472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399526470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d","brand":"Nicholas J. Abbott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487401980159,"sku":"9781399526470","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e3d3780-426a-4b5d-9d66-1fc03b2092f9.jpg?v=1778060289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-wealth-and-the-state-nicholas-j-abbott-9781399526470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}