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Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire : memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia
- Title
- Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire : memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia / Lisa Balabanlilar.
- Author
- Balabanlilar, Lisa, 1958-
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Description
- xix, 216 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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." --
- Series Statement
- Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-3271
- ISBN
- 9781848857261 (hbk.)
- 1848857268 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011277054
- OCLC
- 751754682
- Author
- Balabanlilar, Lisa, 1958-
- Title
- Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire : memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia / Lisa Balabanlilar.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Series
- Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-3271