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23 - War Outside the State

Religious Communities, Martiality, and State Formation in Early Modern South Asia

from Part IV - Featured Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2023

By
Anne Murphy
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Margo Kitts
Margo Kitts
Affiliation:
Hawai'i Pacific University, Honolulu
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Summary

This chapter explores the role of early modern non-state actors in organized martial conflicts to understand how diverse social formations define “war” prior to the institution of the nation-state system. Exploration of how such actors interacted with states, and often operated independently of them, enhances our understanding of the multiple locations of organized violence without the assumption of state formation as a goal and allows greater appreciation of the sometimes dispersed nature of martial coercion.

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early modern IndiaSouth Asiamartialityasceticism
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War , pp. 443 - 462
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Edited by Margo Kitts, Hawai'i Pacific University, Honolulu
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