Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires

Nandini Chatterjee

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Negotiating Mughal Law

A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires

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Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781108623391
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623391
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History

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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 flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new history from below of the Mughal Empire, far from the glittering courts of the emperors and nobles, but still dramatic and filled with colourful personalities. From this perspective, we see war, violence, betrayal, enterprise, romance and disappointment, but we also see a quest for law, justice, rights and righteousness. A rare story of Islamic law in a predominantly non-Muslim society, this is also an exploration of the peripheral regions of the Maratha empire and a neglected princely state under British colonial rule. This title is also available as Open Access.

‘This book is an important work that enriches our understanding of family, empire and estate in South Asia. The analysis moves away from state policy and image-building to the micro-processes that actually reproduce state power. It achieves this through the mastery of difficult sources presented in a wide comparative frame.'

Sumit Guha - University of Texas, Austin

‘In tracking a single family's legal documents over three centuries, Nandini Chatterjee has written an extraordinary book, upturning our understanding of how Mughal law worked and how it was experienced by its subjects. It will be revelatory for anyone interested in Islamic, South Asian, or Mughal history.'

Samira Sheikh - Vanderbilt University

‘… it will be a valuable addition to the historiography of the Mughal Empire.’

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A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires

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Negotiating Mughal Law
pp i-ii

Negotiating Mughal Law - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures and Tables
pp vi-vi

Maps
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Note on Transliteration and Dates
pp xi-xi

Abbreviations
pp xii-xii

Introduction: Law in Many Forms
pp 1-43

1 - Malwa: Land of Many Empires
pp 44-69

2 - Zamīndārs: Lords of the Marches
pp 70-112

3 - Contractors: Engaging the State
pp 113-140

4 - Transactions: Recording Deals
pp 141-170

5 - Disputes: Judges and Courts
pp 171-190

6 - Invaders: Marathas and the British
pp 191-210

7 - Identity: Professionals or Warlords?
pp 211-223

Fragments to Archives: a Methodological Manifesto
pp 224-238

Appendix: A Catalogue of the P Das Archive
pp 239-266

Glossary
pp 267-268

Bibliography
pp 269-290

Index
pp 291-298

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