
Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire
Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia
- 240 pages
- English
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Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire
Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia
About this book
Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Author bio
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Genealogy of the Timurid-Mughal Dynasty of India
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue Timurid Political Charisma and the Ideology of Rule
- Chapter 1 Babur and the Timurid Exile
- Chapter 2 Dynastic Memory and the Genealogical Cult
- Chapter 3 The Peripatetic Court and the Timurid-Mughal Landscape
- Chapter 4 Legitimacy, Restless Princes and the Imperial Succession
- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Imagining Kingship
- Notes
- Bibliography