Exploring medieval India :
Exploring medieval India : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries /
edited by Meena Bhargava.
- New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
- 2 v. : 22 cm.
v. 1. Politics, economy, religion -- v. 2. Culture, gender, regional patterns.
Contents
List ofFigures and Maps vii
Acknoivledgements
Introduction
Meena Bhargava 1
SECTION ONE: CULTURE: DIVERSE FORMS
1. The Pursuitof Persian: Language in Mughal Politics
Muzaffar Alam 39
2. Development ofInshd Literature to theEnd ofAkbar's Reign
Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli 74
3. On the Margins ofUtopia: One more look at
Mughal Painting
Monicajuneja 113
4. Mapping Hindu-Muslim Identities through the
Architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur
Catherine B. Asher HI
5. Nau Ruz in Mughal India
Stef>/ien P. Blake 169
6. Gender Politics and the Urdu Ghazal: Exploratory
Observations on ReWiw versus ReUiti
Carlo Petievich 186
SECTION TWO: GENDER AND MEDIEVALISM
7. The 'Domestic World' of Peripatetic Kings: Babur and
Humayun, c. 1494-1556
Ruby Lai 221
vi Contents
8. The Capture of Maryam-uz-Zamanl's Ship: Mughal
Women and EuropeanTraders
Ellison Banks Findly 261
9. Regulating the Domestic: Notes on the Pre-colonial
Stateand the Family
Dilbagh Singh 285
10. Representing 'his' Women: Mirza AhCi Jalih Khan's 1801
'Vindication of the Liberties ofAsiatic Women'
Mic/ioeJH. Fisher 307
SECTION THREE: PATTERNS OF TRANSITION
11. Eighteenth Century India: Another View
Burton Stein
12. The First Age of Giohallmperialism.c. 1760-1830
C. A. Bayly
13. Credit. Work and Race in 1790s Calcutta: Early
View
David N. Loren^en
andTHeSghaL^Sm
Norman P. Ziegler
16. Abul Fazl's Account of AkhaA R.
of Reason and Tolerance? Ambit
Ah.san Ra?a {Chan
17- The Limits of Empire 486
Jos Gommans
Zahir Uddin Malik
Suggested Readings
9788125041030 (pbk.) (v. 1) 8125041036 (pbk.) (v. 1) 9788125041047 (pbk.) (v. 2) 8125041044 (pbk.) (v. 2)
India--History
954.025 / BHA/E
v. 1. Politics, economy, religion -- v. 2. Culture, gender, regional patterns.
Contents
List ofFigures and Maps vii
Acknoivledgements
Introduction
Meena Bhargava 1
SECTION ONE: CULTURE: DIVERSE FORMS
1. The Pursuitof Persian: Language in Mughal Politics
Muzaffar Alam 39
2. Development ofInshd Literature to theEnd ofAkbar's Reign
Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli 74
3. On the Margins ofUtopia: One more look at
Mughal Painting
Monicajuneja 113
4. Mapping Hindu-Muslim Identities through the
Architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur
Catherine B. Asher HI
5. Nau Ruz in Mughal India
Stef>/ien P. Blake 169
6. Gender Politics and the Urdu Ghazal: Exploratory
Observations on ReWiw versus ReUiti
Carlo Petievich 186
SECTION TWO: GENDER AND MEDIEVALISM
7. The 'Domestic World' of Peripatetic Kings: Babur and
Humayun, c. 1494-1556
Ruby Lai 221
vi Contents
8. The Capture of Maryam-uz-Zamanl's Ship: Mughal
Women and EuropeanTraders
Ellison Banks Findly 261
9. Regulating the Domestic: Notes on the Pre-colonial
Stateand the Family
Dilbagh Singh 285
10. Representing 'his' Women: Mirza AhCi Jalih Khan's 1801
'Vindication of the Liberties ofAsiatic Women'
Mic/ioeJH. Fisher 307
SECTION THREE: PATTERNS OF TRANSITION
11. Eighteenth Century India: Another View
Burton Stein
12. The First Age of Giohallmperialism.c. 1760-1830
C. A. Bayly
13. Credit. Work and Race in 1790s Calcutta: Early
View
David N. Loren^en
andTHeSghaL^Sm
Norman P. Ziegler
16. Abul Fazl's Account of AkhaA R.
of Reason and Tolerance? Ambit
Ah.san Ra?a {Chan
17- The Limits of Empire 486
Jos Gommans
Zahir Uddin Malik
Suggested Readings
9788125041030 (pbk.) (v. 1) 8125041036 (pbk.) (v. 1) 9788125041047 (pbk.) (v. 2) 8125041044 (pbk.) (v. 2)
India--History
954.025 / BHA/E