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Domesticity and power in the early Mughal world /
Lal Ruby
Domesticity and power in the early Mughal world / Ruby Lal - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xiv, 241 p. : 22 cm
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. A genealogy of the Mughal haram.
3. The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir.
4. The making of Mughal court society.
5. Where was the haram in a peripatetic world?
6. Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar.
7. Settled, sacred, and 'incarcerated': the imperial haram.
8. Conclusion.
9780521145541 (pbk.)
Courtesans - Mogul Empire - Social Life & Customs - 16th Century
Royal Households - Domestic Relations
Social role - Mogul Empire - History - 16th Century
Court & Courtiers
306.742 LAL
Domesticity and power in the early Mughal world / Ruby Lal - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xiv, 241 p. : 22 cm
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. A genealogy of the Mughal haram.
3. The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir.
4. The making of Mughal court society.
5. Where was the haram in a peripatetic world?
6. Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar.
7. Settled, sacred, and 'incarcerated': the imperial haram.
8. Conclusion.
9780521145541 (pbk.)
Courtesans - Mogul Empire - Social Life & Customs - 16th Century
Royal Households - Domestic Relations
Social role - Mogul Empire - History - 16th Century
Court & Courtiers
306.742 LAL