TY - BOOK TI - Exploring medieval India: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries SN - 9788125041030 (pbk.) (v. 1) U1 - 954.025 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient BlackSwan KW - India KW - History N1 - 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 ER -