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020 $a9781848857261 (hbk.)
020 $a1848857268 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aDS461$b.B25 2012
082 04 $a954.025$223
100 1 $aBalabanlilar, Lisa,$d1958-
245 10 $aImperial identity in the Mughal Empire :$bmemory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia /$cLisa Balabanlilar.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI.B. Tauris ;$aNew York :$bdistributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,$c2012.
300 $axix, 216 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aLibrary of South Asian history and culture ;$vv. 1
520 $a"Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition." --$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index.
505 0 $aTimurid political charisma and the ideology of rule -- Babur and the Timurid exile -- Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult -- The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape -- Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession -- Imagining Kingship.
651 0 $aMogul Empire$xHistory.
650 0 $aTimurids$xHistory.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$y1526-1765.
830 0 $aLibrary of South Asian history and culture ;$vv. 1.