Writing the Mughal World

Alam, Muzaffar [u.a.]:
Writing the Mughal World : Studies on Culture and Politics / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2011. - xiv, 516 S. : Kt.
ISBN 978-0-231-15810-7 (cloth)
US$ 89,50 / £ 62,00
ISBN 978-0-231-15811-4 (Paperback)
US$ 29,50 / £ 20,50
Indische Ausg.: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2011. - ISBN 81-7824-309-1. - Rs. 850,00 (South Asia only)
DDC: 954.025072
-- Angekündigt für August 2011 --

Beschreibung
Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government that facilitated an era of profound artistic and architectural achievement. They promoted the place of Persian culture in Indian society and set the groundwork for South Asia’s future development.
   In this volume, two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an essential introductory reflection. Making creative use of materials written in Persian, Indian vernacular languages, and a variety of European languages, their chapters accomplish the most significant innovations in Mughal historiography in decades, intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought.
   Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam center on confrontations between different source materials that they then reconcile, enabling readers to participate in both the debate and resolution of competing claims. Their introduction discusses the comparative and historiographical approach of their work and its place within the literature on Mughal rule. Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this volume richly expands research on the Mughal state, early modern South Asia, and the comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other early modern empires. [Verlagsinformation]

Aus dem Inhalt
- Letters from a sinking sultan
- The Mughals look beyond the winds
- On the end of the Akbari dispensation
- The Deccan frontier and Mughal expansion, c. 1600
- Faizi's Nal-Daman and its long afterlife
- Catholics and Muslims in the court of Jahangir (1608-1611)
- The making of a Munshi
- Trade and politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700-1732)
- Eighteenth-century historiography and the world of the Mughal Munshi
- The political thought of a late eighteenth-century Mughal prince.

Autoren
MUZAFFAR ALAM is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India and The Languages of Political Islam in India: c. 1200-1800. Profile page.
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama and the two-volume Explorations in Connected History. Profile page.

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