Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire : Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Genealogy of the Timurid-Mughal Dynasty of India -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Contents of This Book -- Prologue Timurid Political Charisma and the Ideology of Rule -- Fabricating Legitimate Timurid Rule -- The Death of Timur: Dynastic Legitimacy and the Timurid Renaissance -- The Late Timurid World -- Chapter 1 Babur and the Timurid Exile -- Babur and the Late Timurid World -- Padshah of Kabul -- In This State of Exile -- Abstinence and Longing -- The Poetry of Exile -- Cultural Bridges and Nostalgia -- Chapter 2 Dynastic Memory and the Genealogical Cult -- Genealogy and the Guregeniyya -- Recognition of Timurid Political Charisma -- Timurid Legitimacy in India -- The Timurid Ancestral Homeland -- Sahib Qiran -- Genealogy and the Silsilahnama -- History, Imperial Memoir and the Mughal Arts of the Book -- Painting, Portraiture and Memory -- Artifacts and Memorabilia -- Chapter 3 The Peripatetic Court and the Timurid-Mughal Landscape -- The Nomadic Court -- Life in a Garden -- Late Timurid Gardens -- The Hunt -- The Hunting Park -- 'Be a Friend of Wine' -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- Chapter 4 Legitimacy, Restless Princes and the Imperial Succession -- Wives, Mothers and Legitimacy -- Tanistry -- Training Princes to Rule: The Imperial Appanage -- Akbar and the Princely Appanage: Timurid Traditions Transformed -- Atekes, Naukars, Allies -- Adapted Succession Traditions Among Mughal Contemporaries -- Restless Princes, Fratricide, and Timurid Imperial Partition -- Brothers at War -- How Succession Wars Served the Dynasty: Benefits of Turco-Mongol Tradition -- Divine Sanction -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Imagining Kingship -- Imperial Dispensation of Justice -- Imperial Dispensation of Justice -- Notes -- Introduction.

Prologue Timurid Political Charisma and the Ideology of Rule -- Chapter 1 Babur and the Timurid Exile -- Chapter 2 Dynastic Memory and the Genealogical Cult -- Chapter 3 The Peripatetic Court and theTimurid-Mughal Landscape -- Chapter 3 The Peripatetic Court and the Timurid-Mughal Landscape -- Chapter 4 Legitimacy, Restless Princes and the Imperial Succession -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Imagining Kingship -- Bibliography -- Index.

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