A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empires richest provincial cityWhat
did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often …

This article aims to contribute to a growing body of scholarship on the cultural world of the
early modern Indo-Persian state secretary, or munshī. Our guide will be the celebrated …

This paper describes a simple model of how a ruler's religious identity affects public goods
provision. Our primary insight is that rulers reduce public goods expenditures to a greater …

With the expansion of its territory in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, the British
East India Company increasingly felt the need to widen postal networks and speed up …

My doctoral dissertation studies the historical phenomenon of text circulation that connected
communities across the early modern Western Indian Ocean. A focus on the mobility of …

The Post Office of India has evolved tremendously from an institution of 'communication'to an
important 'financial'institution of the early twenty-first century. This article traces the evolution …

This article explores the practices of private communication of Muslims at the eclipse of the
Russian empire. The correspondence of a young Kazan mullah with his family and friends …

There is a large literature on the impact of railways on price convergence. Ignored, however,
is the role of another potentially important network: post offices. By providing timely …

The Edwardian postcard has been described as the Twitter of its age. Earlier regarded as an
insignificant pop-cultural trifle, it has, over the last two decades, begun to receive serious …