Between household and state : the Mughal frontier and the politics of circulation in peninsular India / Subah Dayal.
| Author/creator | Dayal, Subah author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] |
| Description | xi, 284 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The household in connected histories -- The military barrack : identifying households, becoming Mughal -- From court to port : governing the household -- The adorned palace : narrating ceremony and relatedness -- At home in the regional court : critiquing empire -- From battlefield to weaving village : disciplining the coast -- Postscript: forgetting households, making dynasties. |
| Abstract | "For decades, scholars have examined the Mughal Empire, South Asia's largest and most powerful pre-colonial empire, to measure the greatness of its political, ideological, and cultural institutions. Between Household and State departs from dynastic narrations of the Mughal past to highlight the role of elite households and familial networks in shaping imperial power, particularly in peninsular India, the only region of the subcontinent never fully incorporated into the imperial realm. Drawing upon rare documentary and literary materials in Persian and Urdu alongside the Dutch East India Company's archives, the book takes us on a journey from military forts and regional courts in the Deccan to the weaving villages of the Coromandel Coast to examine how regional elite alliances, feuds, and material exchanges intersected with imperial institutions to create new forms of affinity, belonging, and social exclusion. Between Household and State brings attention to the importance of ghar-or home-as an analytical framework for the creation of mobile forms of sovereignty that anchored the Mughal frontier across the variable geography of peninsular India in the seventeenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Terms of use | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [CC BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy of the license, visit. http://creativecommons.org/licenses. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Dayal, Subah, 1984- Between household and state Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520402379 |
| LCCN | 2024014802 |
| ISBN | 9780520402362 |
| ISBN | 0520402367 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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