Author: Ruby LalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World
Author: Ruby LalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Author: Ruby LalPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents’ mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. And she was both celebrated and reviled for her political acumen and diplomatic skill, which rivaled those of her female counterparts in Europe and beyond. In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were secluded behind walls, Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, and governed in his stead as his health failed and his attentions wandered from matters of state. An astute politician and devoted partner, Nur led troops into battle to free Jahangir when he was imprisoned by one of his own officers. She signed and issued imperial orders, and coins of the realm bore her name. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur’s confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In Empress, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
Rereading the Black Legend
Author: Margaret R. GreerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226307247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain’s uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.” A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance.
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
Author: Ruby LalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139852019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops.
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World South Asian Edition
Author: LalThe Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719
Author: Munis D. FaruquiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A new interpretation of the Mughal Empire explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of its princes.
Writing the Mughal World
Author: Muzaffar AlamPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231158114
Category : Mogul Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
In this volume, the authors present essays on the Mughal Empire by intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought.
The Mughal Harem
Author: Kishori Saran LalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This work is a maiden attempt at research in the hitherto overlooked area of social history of medieval India.It attempts to recapitulate the day-to-day life of the ladies of the seraglio.The delicate and delightful task has been deftly handled and it is hoped that scholars and laymen both will enjoy.
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
Author: Maaike van BerkelPublisher: Rulers & Elites
ISBN: 9789004315709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
Writing Self, Writing Empire
Author: Rajeev KinraPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence. As a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way, Chandar Bhan’s experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history.