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Leaving Legacies : The Individual in Early Modern South Asia / Shayan Rajani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rajani, Shayan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asia--Civilization.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Leaving Legacies is a fresh account of the individual in early modern South Asia. A gendered practice carried out by men, leaving legacies involved assembling three kinds of material traces: monuments, books, and sons. Men laid claim to individual distinction within an ethics of remembering worthy individuals by joining their traces with those of men past and reworking older legacies. Their legacies joined their present to the past and future, while also drawing women and non-elite men into a hierarchical order centered upon the individual during Mughal rule and after. This book shows that a concern for the individual self was not an exclusively western phenomenon. Rather, the practice of leaving individual legacies was a crucial means for the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order in South Asia
- Contents:
- Cover
- Leaving Legacies
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps and Images
- Maps
- Introduction
- WRITTEN ON A STONE AT A SPRING
- THE EARLY MODERN INDIVIDUAL
- HIERARCHICAL ORDER
- WOMEN AND THE FAMILY
- NESTED SCALES: LOCALITY, REGION, WORLD
- STITCHING TIME
- 1 The Individual in the Inscription
- THE CHIHILZINA
- THE KING AND THE CAVE
- THE ACTS OF THE SON
- THE MAN AT THE MARGIN
- 2 The Rise of Self-Representation
- THE INTERTEXTUALITY OF MEMORIALS
- THE WORLD-REVEALING TOWER
- THE LIGHT-FILLED INTERIOR
- THE HERE AND THE AFTER
- MEMORIALS IN MULTIMEDIA
- THE INVITATION
- 3 Books that Bind
- THE NOBLE FAMILY
- COUNSELOR TO THE KING
- THE BOND OF BOOKS
- THE INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY
- THE LIMITS OF MIRAK'S UNIVERSALISM
- 4 Pious Bodies
- DIVESTING FROM THE KING'S BODY
- THE IZZAT CORPUS
- PRAYER AND THE PEOPLE OF FAITH
- DEFENDING SINDH
- MAKING MUSLIM SPACE
- UNITY AND CONFLICT
- HASHIM'S TRACES
- 5 Unraveling the Self
- THE AGE OF FAQIRS
- SPURNING THE FAMILY
- FEMALE PEDAGOGY IN LATIF'S POETRY
- LATIF RECOUPED
- REMEMBERING WOMEN
- 6 Regional Man
- PERSIANATE CULTURE IN THE CITY OF THATTA
- PERSIAN SINDH
- THE AGE OF THE REGION
- SINDH HIERARCHIC
- FAMILIAL POWER AND INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE
- HINDUS AND WOMEN IN THATTA
- CONCLUSION
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024).
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009509480
- 1009509489
- 9781009509527
- 1009509527
- OCLC:
- 1496395588
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