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Imperial Identity In the Mughal Empire
[Paperback - 2016]
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Category: History
Sub-category: South Asian History
Additional Category: South Asian Studies
Publisher: I.b.tauris Uk | ISBN: 9781784531287 | Pages: 0
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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 traveled 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.

Lisa Balabanlilar is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Rice University, Texas.

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