Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Series: | Library of South Asian history and culture
volume 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Timurid political charisma and the ideology of rule
- Babur and the Timurid exile
- Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult
- The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape
- Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession
- Imagining Kingship