Farhat Hasan

Paper, Performance, and the State

Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516812
• ISBN-10: 1316516814
• Artikelnr.: 61502677

Autorenporträt

Farhat Hasan is Professor in Medieval and Early Modern South Asian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He earned his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1997. His book, State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c.1572-1730 was published from Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK) in 2004. The book was short-listed by the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), based at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden for the best book (on Asia) prize in the discipline of Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

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.