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Balabanlilar Lisa <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire : memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia / / Lisa Balabanlilar |
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London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris |
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New York : , : distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-7556-2436-X |
0-85772-081-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Library of South Asian history and culture ; ; v. 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Timurids - History |
Asian history |
India History 1526-1765 |
Mogul Empire History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2012. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [192]-209) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Timurid 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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