Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Fragmenting sovereignty -- 1. Minor sovereignties : Hyderabad among states and empires -- 2. The legal framework of sovereignty -- Part I. Ideas -- 3. A passage to another India : Hyderabad's discursive universe -- 4. Hyderabad and the world : bureaucrat-intellectuals and Muslim modernist internationalism -- Part II. Institutions -- 5. Moglai temporality : institutions, imperialism and the making of the Hyderabad frontier -- 6. Frontier as resource : law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire -- Part III. Urban Space -- 7. Remaking city, developing state : ethical patrimonialism, urbanism and economic planning -- 8. Improvising urbanism : sanitation and power in Hyderabad and Secunderabad -- Conclusion: Fragmented sovereignty in a world of nation-states.