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Introduction: Law in Many Forms

In the late 1620s, Prince Khurram was serving his punishment posting as governor of Deccan, while his sons were held hostage at the imperial court by his own father, Emperor Jahangir. Prince Khurram,…

Negotiating Mughal Law

Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who…

The Making of a Munshi

The difficult transition between the information and knowledge regimes of the precolonial and colonial political systems of South Asia was largely, though not exclusively, mediated by scribes,…

Mughal administration in Golconda

guese Seaborne Empire, if you encountered a Portuguese merchantman on the Indian Ocean, it could in fact be Indian in everything except the flag and the skipper. It is this important perception that…