Eric Lewis Beverley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Lewis Beverley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Beverley |
| SIGNATURE | BEVERLEY E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0127-2580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond colonial urbanism
Urban histories of modern South Asia have centred on British Indian cities and the reign of colonial urbanism, with dependence on metropolitan imperatives and models regarded as givens. Focusing on Hyderabad, one of the subcontinent's five largest cities and capital of an autonomous princely state throughout the colonial era, this article establishes the analytical utility of princely urbanism as a framework for writing the history of South Asian…
Old Borderlands
Large zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty in the subcontinent and much of Asia and Africa. Histories and legacies of borderland autonomy have important implications for contemporary sovereign practice in much of the world. This articl…
Documenting the World in Indo-Persianate & Imperial English
In late-nineteenth-century Hyderabad, the Persian administrative idiom gave way to bilingual English/Urdu conduct of governance, along with rising prominence of other languages, networks, and political ideologies. Before and after this shift, state bureaucrat-intellectuals published exhaustive accounts of Hyderabad’s administrative and political structure and history in Persian, Urdu, and English. This article considers several documentary texts …
Securing Empire's Borderlands
Securing Empire's Borderlands: Reflections from South AsiaNumerous «minor states» exercised sovereignty on borderlands of European empires c. 1850–1950. Conceived by colonial officials as security threats, these polities were subjected to extra-territorial jurisdiction and colonial securitization discourse. This article examines a key non-European power – Muslim-ruled Hyderabad State in South Asia's central Deccan plateau – to consider the histor…
Territoriality in Motion
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim…
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Moglai temporality
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Urbanist Expansions
This paper examines the rise of urban space as locus of intervention, and planning as modality of state power in South Asia from the late nineteenth century to the early post-colonial period. I view these developments through the re-making of Hyderabad, a major metropolis and capital of a sovereign non-colonial state until 1948. The regime's autonomous status made the city a venue for political experimentations informed by varied global and regio…
Frontier as Resource
Nineteenth-century European colonialism produced a textured and uneven legal terrain rather than homogeneous imperial units. The fragmentation of sovereignty between empires and subordinated states created frontier zones that unsettled the workings of governance. This article views the developing landscape of power in high colonial South Asia from the loosely controlled frontier zone between Hyderabad, a Princely State ruled by sovereign Muslim d…
Property, Authority and Personal Law
British rule in South Asia transformed the economy and society of the subcontinent, in large part by revamping the status of landed property. Colonial law was founded on the notion that ostensibly religious personal law was outside state jurisdiction. The boundary between state law and personal law, however, was blurry and some elements of ‘religious’ law had major implications for matters at the core of colonial policy, such as property control.…
Colonial urbanism and South Asian cities
[excerpt] In Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark 1966 film, the French colonial city of Algiers strikes a dramatic posture, split in two by a fortified barrier administered by imperial forces. 1 \n The cordon sanitaire between the European quarter and the ‘native’ qasba partitions the disciplined spaces of the colonial city, setting apart what appear to the moviegoer as materializations of radically different concepts and histories of urban design, plann…
Colonial urbanism and South Asian cities
[excerpt] In Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark 1966 film, the French colonial city of Algiers strikes a dramatic posture, split in two by a fortified barrier administered by imperial forces. 1 \n The cordon sanitaire between the European quarter and the ‘native’ qasba partitions the disciplined spaces of the colonial city, setting apart what appear to the moviegoer as materializations of radically different concepts and histories of urban design, plann…
Frontier as Resource
Nineteenth-century European colonialism produced a textured and uneven legal terrain rather than homogeneous imperial units. The fragmentation of sovereignty between empires and subordinated states created frontier zones that unsettled the workings of governance. This article views the developing landscape of power in high colonial South Asia from the loosely controlled frontier zone between Hyderabad, a Princely State ruled by sovereign Muslim d…
Property, Authority and Personal Law
British rule in South Asia transformed the economy and society of the subcontinent, in large part by revamping the status of landed property. Colonial law was founded on the notion that ostensibly religious personal law was outside state jurisdiction. The boundary between state law and personal law, however, was blurry and some elements of ‘religious’ law had major implications for matters at the core of colonial policy, such as property control.…
Old Borderlands
Large zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty in the subcontinent and much of Asia and Africa. Histories and legacies of borderland autonomy have important implications for contemporary sovereign practice in much of the world. This articl…
Territoriality in Motion
Property, Authority and Personal Law
British rule in South Asia transformed the economy and society of the subcontinent, in large part by revamping the status of landed property. Colonial law was founded on the notion that ostensibly religious personal law was outside state jurisdiction. The boundary between state law and personal law, however, was blurry and some elements of ‘religious’ law had major implications for matters at the core of colonial policy, such as property control.…
Colonial urbanism and South Asian cities
[excerpt] In Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark 1966 film, the French colonial city of Algiers strikes a dramatic posture, split in two by a fortified barrier administered by imperial forces. 1 \n The cordon sanitaire between the European quarter and the ‘native’ qasba partitions the disciplined spaces of the colonial city, setting apart what appear to the moviegoer as materializations of radically different concepts and histories of urban design, plann…
Urbanist Expansions
This paper examines the rise of urban space as locus of intervention, and planning as modality of state power in South Asia from the late nineteenth century to the early post-colonial period. I view these developments through the re-making of Hyderabad, a major metropolis and capital of a sovereign non-colonial state until 1948. The regime's autonomous status made the city a venue for political experimentations informed by varied global and regio…
Frontier as Resource
Nineteenth-century European colonialism produced a textured and uneven legal terrain rather than homogeneous imperial units. The fragmentation of sovereignty between empires and subordinated states created frontier zones that unsettled the workings of governance. This article views the developing landscape of power in high colonial South Asia from the loosely controlled frontier zone between Hyderabad, a Princely State ruled by sovereign Muslim d…
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim…
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Moglai temporality
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Securing Empire's Borderlands
Securing Empire's Borderlands: Reflections from South AsiaNumerous «minor states» exercised sovereignty on borderlands of European empires c. 1850–1950. Conceived by colonial officials as security threats, these polities were subjected to extra-territorial jurisdiction and colonial securitization discourse. This article examines a key non-European power – Muslim-ruled Hyderabad State in South Asia's central Deccan plateau – to consider the histor…
Territoriality in Motion
Documenting the World in Indo-Persianate & Imperial English
In late-nineteenth-century Hyderabad, the Persian administrative idiom gave way to bilingual English/Urdu conduct of governance, along with rising prominence of other languages, networks, and political ideologies. Before and after this shift, state bureaucrat-intellectuals published exhaustive accounts of Hyderabad’s administrative and political structure and history in Persian, Urdu, and English. This article considers several documentary texts …
Old Borderlands
Large zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty in the subcontinent and much of Asia and Africa. Histories and legacies of borderland autonomy have important implications for contemporary sovereign practice in much of the world. This articl…
Beyond colonial urbanism
Urban histories of modern South Asia have centred on British Indian cities and the reign of colonial urbanism, with dependence on metropolitan imperatives and models regarded as givens. Focusing on Hyderabad, one of the subcontinent's five largest cities and capital of an autonomous princely state throughout the colonial era, this article establishes the analytical utility of princely urbanism as a framework for writing the history of South Asian…
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