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Lisa Balabanlilar 
Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire 
Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia

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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 new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture – the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.
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Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9780857732460 ● Publisher I.B.Tauris ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5677754 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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