Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire: memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia Lisa Balabanlilar.
Series: Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1.Publication details: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xix, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9788130922676Subject(s): Timurids -- History | Mogul Empire -- History | India -- History -- 1526-1765DDC classification: 954.025 LOC classification: DS461 | .B25 2012Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Nalanda University Reference | 954.025 B18 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | II & IV Sem Course Books | 009066 |
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954 Or81 After timur left | 954.007202 Si132 Indo-Persian historiography to the fourteenth century / | 954.02 As352 India before europe | 954.025 B18 Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire: memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia | 954.025 H6151 Babur Nama : Journal of emperor Babur | 954.0250922 R1267 Attendant lords: Bairam Khan and Abdu Rahim; courtiers & poets in Mughal India | 954.0254 D169 Religious interactions in Mughal India |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index.
Timurid political charisma and the ideology of rule -- Babur and the Timurid exile -- Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult -- The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape -- Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession -- Imagining Kingship.
"Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition." -- Provided by publisher.
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