Between Household and State : The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dayal, Subah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--India--Deccan.

Borderlands.

Households--India--Deccan.

Households.

Politics and culture--Mughal Empire--History.

Politics and culture.

Mughal Empire--Politics and government.

Mughal Empire.

Deccan (India)--Politics and government--17th century.

Deccan (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. Between Household and State departs from dynastic narrations of the Mughal past to highlight the role of elite households and familial networks in peninsular India, the only region of the subcontinent never fully incorporated into the imperial realm. Drawing on rare documentary and literary materials in Persian and Urdu alongside the Dutch East India Company's archives, this book takes readers on a journey from military forts and regional courts in the Deccan to the ports and weaving villages of the Coromandel Coast. It examines how regional elite alliances, feuds, and material exchanges intersected with imperial institutions to create new forms of affinity, belonging, and social exclusion. Subah Dayal brings attention to the importance of ghar--or home--in the creation of forms of mobility that anchored the Mughal frontier across the variable geography of peninsular India in the seventeenth century.

Contents:

Cover

Subvention

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

1. The Household in Connected Histories

2. The Military Barrack

3. From Court to Port

4. The Adorned Palace

5. At Home in the Regional Court

6. From Battlefield to Weaving Village

7. Postscript

Notes

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520402379

0520402375

OCLC:

1472989512