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Exploring medieval India : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / edited by Meena Bhargava.

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TextPublication details: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2010Description: 2 v. : 22 cmISBN: 9788125041030 (pbk.) (v. 1); 8125041036 (pbk.) (v. 1); 9788125041047 (pbk.) (v. 2); 8125041044 (pbk.) (v. 2)Subject(s): India -- HistoryDDC classification: 954.025

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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

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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

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