Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire
Subtitle: memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia
By: Lisa Balabanlilar
Series: Library of South Asian history and culture -- v. 1; Library of South Asian history and culture -- v. 1.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781848857261
Subjects: History; Timurids
Description: "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." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Timurid political charisma and the ideology of rule; title: Babur and the Timurid exile; title: Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult; title: The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape; title: Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession; title: Imagining Kingship.