Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India

ISBN-13: 9781316516812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 220 str.

Hasan, Farhat

Opis

This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Property and Social Relations: Litigations and Disputes at the Qazi's Court; 3. Law as Contested Communication: Literacy, Performativity and the Legal Order; 4. Embodiment, Sensoriality and the Public Sphere: Shifting Popular Perceptions of the State; 5. State Formation From Below: Authority and Culture in Micro-Spaces; 6. Toward a Conclusion: The Project of the Nation–State and the Mughal Historian; Bibliography; Index.