Foreign relations and semi-modernization during the reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan

Yazdani, Kaveh

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“…This competition is thought to have prompted Tipu's administrative reforms by increasing demand for reliable revenue extraction (Stein, 1985). Mysore also expanded under Tipu Sultan, bringing at least seven additional kingdoms under his suzerainty although he was forced to cede half of Mysore to the EIC in 1792 (Yazdani, 2018). It is consistent with our model that competition would produce centralization in a high-density system, but it is difficult to say whether this occurred because of the existing "demand" based mechanism cited by Stein (1985) or because the bargaining hand of the center is strengthened by competition and high-density systems generate preferences for extraction based strategies (our mechanism).…”

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War, interaction capacity, and the structures of state systems

Butcher

Griffiths

2020

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How have the structures of state systems varied over time and space? We outline a game theoretic model of the decision by political units to accept offers of graded sovereignty from imperial centers. We conceptualize four types of sovereign bargains – tributary, informal extractive, suzerain, and departmental – as a function of whether a polity has external sovereignty and whether resources flow from the subordinate polity to the imperial center through transfers or direct extraction. We then specify the payoffs for these bargains and theorize how increasing interaction capacity and international competition shape the structure of state systems. We show how increasing interaction capacity is related to the transition from transfers to extraction while international competition plays a role only when interaction capacity is already high. We demonstrate the applicability of our model with case studies from low- and high-density environments during the early modern period, respectively: (1) The Oyo Empire of western Africa; (2) Mysore of south Asia.

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War, interaction capacity, and the structures of state systems

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Griffiths

2020

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How the East Was Won

Phillips

2021

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How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

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2021

How the East Was Won

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Foreign relations and semi-modernization during the reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan

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War, interaction capacity, and the structures of state systems

War, interaction capacity, and the structures of state systems

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