Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary /Rajeev Kinra

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Rajeev Kinra

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Rajeev Kinra

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors | :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 Series: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Oakland, California : University of California Press , 2015Description: xix, 371 pages ;26 cmISBN:

9780520286467
9789352903047

Subject(s):

History

Genre/Form:

India--Mogul Empire

DDC classification:

962.4043 KIN

Contents:

Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.

Summary: Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence

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Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court --
Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective --
A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance --
King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm --
Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters --
Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world --
The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline --
Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.

Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence

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