TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chatterjee,Nandini
TI  - Negotiating Mughal law: a family of landlords across three Indian empires 
SN  - 9781108623391 (ebook)
AV  - KNS130.5 .C47 2020
U1  - 349.54/30903 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - History
KW  - India
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Landlord and tenant
KW  - Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India)
KW  - Islamic influences
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2020); Introduction -- Malwa : Land of many empires -- Zamindars : Lords of the marches -- Contractors : Engaging the state -- Transactions : Recording deals -- Disputes : Judges and courts -- Invaders : Marathas and the British -- Identity : Professionals or Warlords?; Open Access title
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623391
ER  -