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9780521615341

Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521615341

  • ISBN10:

    0521615348

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-10-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In a fascinating and innovative study, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, the author reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers as well as the 'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and Safavid histories as a counterpoint, she demonstrates the richness, ambiguity and particularity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalisation and imperial excellence.

Author Biography

Ruby Lal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, Atlanta

Table of Contents

List of illustrations x
Acknowledgments xi
Note on transliteration and citations xiv
1 Introduction 1(23)
2 A genealogy of the Mughal haram 24(26)
3 The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir 50(19)
4 The making of Mughal court society 69(34)
5 Where was the haram in a peripatetic world? 103(37)
6 Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar 140(36)
7 Settled, sacred, and "incarcerated": the imperial haram 176(38)
8 Conclusion 214(13)
Bibliography 227(7)
Index 234

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