Shared histories of modernity : China, India, and the Ottoman Empire / editors, Huri Islamoğlu and Peter C. Perdue.

Based on workshops in 1999 and 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Veena Das -- Introduction / Hun Islamoglu and Peter G. Perdue -- Empire and Nation in Comparative Perspective: Frontier Administration in Eighteenth-Century China / Peter C. Perdue -- Administrative Practice between Religious and State Law on the Eastern Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire / Dina Rizk Khoury -- Fate of Empires: Rethinking Mughals, Ottomans and Habsburgs / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in the Qing and Ottoman Empires / Huri Islamoglu -- When Strong Men Meet: Recruited Punjabis and Constrained Colonialism / Rajit K. Mazumder -- Administering the City, Policing Commerce / Peter Carroll -- Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Rule and Economic Development: The Qing Empire in Comparative Perspective / R. Bin Wong -- Heaven and the Administration of Things: Some Remarks on Law in the Tanzimat Era / Serif Mardin -- World Made Simple: Law and Property in the Ottoman and Qing Empires / Melissa Macauley -- History of Caste in South Asia: From Pre-colonial Polity to Biopolitical State / Ananya Vajpeyi.