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  • 5 - Disputes: Judges and Courts

  • Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Negotiating Mughal Law
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 171-190
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    This chapter delves into specific moments of dispute among the protagonists and others. Such episodes are used to map the range of adjudicative authorities – Islamic judges (qazis), jagirdars, the imperial court, and their own peers – that was available for significant villagers in Mughal Malwa. This is used to discuss the concept of jurisdictional intertwining as an alternative to inter-jurisdictional conflict and mobility. The focus of the chapter is on an explosive contest over inheritance in the late seventeenth century, which pulled in all the institutions of state that have been discussed thus far, and forced members of the family to define the limits of their kinship and their circle of entitlements. After narrating how a Muslim man tried to argue that he was part of this Hindu family and entitled to share in its rights, the archive is examined afresh – speculating how this episode may have structured the production and preservation of a specific body of documents, aimed at establishing certain rights, and erasing those of others.