
Between Household and State
The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India
- 279 pages
- English
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Between Household and State
The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India
About this book
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Transliteration
- 1. The Household in Connected Histories
- 2. The Military Barrack: Identifying Households, Becoming Mughal
- 3. From Court to Port: Governing the Household
- 4. The Adorned Palace: Narrating Ceremony and Relatedness
- 5. At Home in the Regional Court: Critiquing Empire
- 6. From Battlefield to Weaving Village: Disciplining the Coast
- 7. Postscript: Forgetting Households, Making Dynasties
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography