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Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Introduction -- Malwa : Land of many empires -- Zamindars : Lords of the marches -- Contractors : Engaging the state -- Transactions : Recording deals -- Disputes : Judges and courts -- Invaders : Marathas and the British -- Identity : Professionals or Warlords?
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new history of the Mughal Empire from below, far from the glittering courts of the emperors and nobles, but still dramatic and filled with colourful personalities. From this perspective, we see war, violence, betrayal, enterprise, romance and disappointment, but we also see a quest for law, justice, rights and righteousness. A rare story of Islamic law in a predominantly non-Muslim society, this is also an exploration of the peripheral regions of the Maratha empire and a neglected princely state under British colonial rule.
Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Introduction -- Malwa : Land of many empires -- Zamindars : Lords of the marches -- Contractors : Engaging the state -- Transactions : Recording deals -- Disputes : Judges and courts -- Invaders : Marathas and the British -- Identity : Professionals or Warlords?
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new history of the Mughal Empire from below, far from the glittering courts of the emperors and nobles, but still dramatic and filled with colourful personalities. From this perspective, we see war, violence, betrayal, enterprise, romance and disappointment, but we also see a quest for law, justice, rights and righteousness. A rare story of Islamic law in a predominantly non-Muslim society, this is also an exploration of the peripheral regions of the Maratha empire and a neglected princely state under British colonial rule.
Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Chatterjee, Nandini (author)
2020
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 298 Seiten)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Gesehen am 03.04.2020
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349.54/30903
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86.60
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