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Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran,Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period. Contributors are: Sussan Babaie, Chanchal Dadlani, Jamal Elias, Emine Fetvaci, Christiane Gruber, Sylvia Hougteling, Kishwar Rizvi, Sunil Sharma, and Marianna Shreve Simpson.

Emotions in art. --- Art, Ottoman. --- Art, Mogul Empire. --- Art, Safavid. --- Architecture, Mogul Empire. --- Art, Moghul Empire --- Art, Mogul --- Art, Mughal Empire --- Art, Mughul Empire --- Moghul Empire art --- Mogul Empire art --- Mughal Empire art --- Mughul Empire art --- Ottoman art --- Safavid art --- Architecture, Indo-Muslim --- Architecture, Moghul Empire --- Architecture, Mogul --- Architecture, Mughal Empire --- Architecture, Mughul Empire --- Indo-Muslim architecture --- Moghul Empire architecture --- Mogul Empire architecture --- Mughal Empire architecture --- Mughul Empire architecture --- Turkey --- India --- Iran --- Civilization --- Civilization.

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Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government that facilitated an era of profound artistic and architectural achievement. They promoted the place of Persian culture in Indian society and set the groundwork for South Asia's future development.In this volume, two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an essential introductory reflection. Making creative use of materials written in Persian, Indian vernacular languages, and a variety of European languages, their chapters accomplish the most significant innovations in Mughal historiography in decades, intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam center on confrontations between different source materials that they then reconcile, enabling readers to participate in both the debate and resolution of competing claims. Their introduction discusses the comparative and historiographical approach of their work and its place within the literature on Mughal rule. Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this volume richly expands research on the Mughal state, early modern South Asia, and the comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other early modern empires.

Politics and culture --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Political aspects --- Mogul Empire --- Moghul Empire --- Mughal Empire --- Mugala Empire --- History. --- Historiography. --- Politics and government. --- Commerce

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In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company consolidated its territorial power in the conquered province of Bengal by co-opting and transforming late Mughal, Persianate practices of administering justice to petitioning subjects. Recasting the origins of the pivotal 'Permanent Settlement' of the Bengal revenues in 1793, Travers explores the gradual production of a new system of colonial taxation and civil law through the selective adaptation and reworking of Mughal norms and precedents. Drawing on English and Persian sources, Empires of Complaints reimagines the origins of British India by foregrounding the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation, and the ways that British rulers reinterpreted and reconstituted Persianate forms of statecraft to suit their new empire.

Justice, Administration of --- History --- India --- Mogul Empire --- Influence. --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts --- Law and legislation --- Moghul Empire --- Mughal Empire --- Mugala Empire

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The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy. From the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, it was the Muslim astronomers of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires who were responsible for the major advances in mathematics, astronomy and astrology. This fascinating study compares the Islamic concept of time, and its historical and cultural significance, across these three great empires. Each empire, while mindful of earlier models, created a new temporal system, fashioning a new solar calendar and era and a new round of rituals and ceremonies from the cultural resources at hand. This book contributes to our understanding of the Muslim temporal system and our appreciation of the influence of Islamic science on the Western world.

Islamic calendar. --- Astronomy --- Time --- Islam and science --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- History. --- Iran --- Mogul Empire. --- Turkey --- History --- Science and Islam --- Science --- Calendar, Islamic --- Muslim calendar --- Calendar --- Moghul Empire --- Mughal Empire --- Mugala Empire --- Ottoman Empire --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 --- Arts and Humanities

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The first English version of Bernier's 1670 work since its initial translation from the French in 1672, Irving Brock's 1826 edition vastly improved his predecessor's work. François Bernier (1625?-1688) trained as a physician at Montpellier and left France for Syria in 1654, travelling to Egypt and finally to India ('Hindustan'), where he spent twelve years as the court physician to the Great Mogul Aurangzeb. Celebrated and influential, his Travels shaped European opinions and knowledge of India. Brock provides a biography in his preface to Volume 1, where he also outlines the volumes' contents. Volume 1 narrates civil war, describes the government and finances of the court, and the army, and closes with detailed descriptions of Delhi and Agra. Including Brock's many interventions to relate the narrative to imperial Britain, this work will be of interest to scholars of post-colonialism, of early modern travel and of Asian and European encounters.

Bernier, Francois, --- Mogul empire. --- India --- Description and travel --- Bernier, F. --- Bārṇiẏāra, Phrānsoẏā, --- Phrānsoẏā Bārṇiẏāra, --- Moghul Empire --- Mughal Empire --- Mugala Empire