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• Legalising and Enforcing Socio-Religious Norms: The State, Caste and Positions of Women in the Maratha Empire, 1674-1818 

  Prashant (University of Exeter Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (History), 11 April 2023)

  This thesis investigates the working of laws and judicial mechanisms, including religious and caste assemblies, in order to uncover impacts of the Maratha state’s religious and political ideologies and ambitions on the ...

• ‘I tremble lest my powers of thought are not what they ought to be’: Reputation and the masculine anxieties of an eighteenth–century statesman 

  French, Henry (Palgrave Macmillan, 3 February 2018)

  This paper explores how masculine norms were rendered consequential through the practices of historical actors and institutions. It does so by focusing on changing perceptions of the masculine ‘character’ of the Georgian ...

• An irrevocable shift: detailing the dynamics of rural poverty in Southern England, 1762-1834: a case study 

  French, Henry (Wiley, 20 October 2014)

  Nearly every conceivable aspect of the old poor law in England appears to have been studied. Yet some fundamental questions about parish-level provisioning remain hard to answer. These include the amount that people received ...