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The cultures of history in early modern India : Persianization and Mughal culture in Bengal

Title
The cultures of history in early modern India : Persianization and Mughal culture in Bengal / Kumkum Chatterjee.
Author
Chatterjee, Kumkum.
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description
xi, 290 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Geschichte 1600-1800
  • Political culture > Mogul Empire
  • Historiography
  • Political culture
  • Geschichtsschreibung
  • Kultur
  • Persisch
  • Bengal (India) > Historiography
  • West Bengal (India) > Historiography
  • India > Bengal
  • India > Mogul Empire
  • India > West Bengal
  • Bengalen
  • Mogulreich
  • Persisch
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index.
Contents
Mapping early modern Bengal: polity, culture, and the literary universe -- The gealogical tradition -- Performance narratives and the Mughal factor -- Prose narratives of Kings: between 'old' and "new" -- Saving the Mughal legacy: the Tarikhs of the Nawabi world -- The English East India Company: reflections on Mughal traditions of governance -- Mughal culture and persianization in seventeenth and eighteenth century Bengal.
ISBN
  • 0195698800
  • 9780195698800
LCCN
2009311235
OCLC
  • ocn277205270
  • 277205270
  • SCSB-1524217
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library