Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Property and Social Relations: Litigations and Disputes at the Qāzi's Court
- 3 Law as Contested Communication: Literacy, Performativity, and the Legal Order
- 4 Embodiment, Sensoriality, and the Public Sphere: Shifting Popular Perceptions of the State
- 5 State Formation from Below: Authority and Culture in Micro-Spaces
- 6 Towards a Conclusion: The Project of the Nation-State and the Mughal Historian
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Property and Social Relations: Litigations and Disputes at the Qāzi's Court
- 3 Law as Contested Communication: Literacy, Performativity, and the Legal Order
- 4 Embodiment, Sensoriality, and the Public Sphere: Shifting Popular Perceptions of the State
- 5 State Formation from Below: Authority and Culture in Micro-Spaces
- 6 Towards a Conclusion: The Project of the Nation-State and the Mughal Historian
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Paper, Performance, and the StateSocial Change and Political Culture in Mughal India, pp. 153 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021