TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balabanlilar,Lisa
TI  - Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire: memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia 
T2  - Library of South Asian history and culture
SN  - 9788130922676
AV  - DS461 .B25 2012
U1  - 954.025 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris, distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Timurids
KW  - History
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - India
KW  - 1526-1765
N1  - 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
N2  - "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." --
ER  -