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Between 1914 and 1935 the Church of God, a major Southern Pentecostal denomination based in Cleveland, Tennessee, accepted and promoted serpent handling as an authentic manifestation of Holy Spirit baptism and as a persuasive evangelical tool. They used their popular weekly news…

This dissertation addresses several interrelated issues currently of central concern in research on early modern South Asian history. This includes debates concerning the nature of the Mughal empire's efforts toward administrative centralization and subsequent imperial decline, …