This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communica…
This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communica…
"Looking at the political process in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, the work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the state subsisted on the mutually empowering relations with the elites and common people. In pitching f…