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082			_a954.025 RAJ
100			_aRajani, Shayan.
245			_aLeaving Legacies _b: The Individual in Early Modern South Asia. _c/ Shayan Rajani.
260			_a, New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2024.
300			_aviii, 298p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b906.5
520			_aLeaving Legacies is a fresh account of the individual in early modern South Asia. A gendered practice carried out by men, leaving legacies involved assembling three kinds of material traces: monuments, books, and sons. Men laid claim to individual distinction within an ethics of remembering worthy individuals by joining their traces with those of men past and reworking older legacies. Their legacies joined their present to the past and future, while also drawing women and non-elite men into a hierarchical order centered upon the individual during Mughal rule and after. This book shows that a concern for the individual self was not an exclusively western phenomenon. Rather, the practice of leaving individual legacies was a crucial means for the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order in South Asia.
650			_aModern South Asia
650			_aLeaving Legacies
650			_aHistory of South Asia
700			_aShayan Rajani
942			_cBOOK
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