International audienceTaking into account the renewal of general propositions in the historiography of Western empires, this article re-examines the relations between central authority and militaro-administrative elites in the Mughal Empire of the first quarter of the 17th century--a rather neglected period in conventional historiography. In order to do so, voice is given to a series of texts belonging to the genre of sub-imperial literature, and rarely used in this context. Focusing on the rhetorics of legitimacy and the "interstitial" political practices at work in these sources, the analysis sheds light on the strategies (both ideological and pragmatic) implemented by the nobility in response to the growing pressure of the imperial model...
International audienceSince the time of Bābur, the Safavids--rather than the Ottomans or the Uzbeks-...
International audienceGoing against the idea that the 18th century corresponded in South Asia to a g...
This article deals with the representation of the space of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century...
International audienceTaking into account the renewal of general propositions in the historiography ...
International audienceThe present contribution surveys the different ways in which imperial authorit...
International audienceThis book is the first academic monograph devoted to the reign of the fourth M...
In this article, Mughal understandings of their own past are reconstructed from the standpoint of Mu...
International audienceContrary to what the "Indocentrism" that has long prevailed in the field of Mu...
International audienceThis article argues against the common view according to which the Mughal empe...
The Fiscal Bases of the Mughal State. Problems of Structure and Evolution 1550-1750. The historiog...
The Persian language court chronicles composed during the reigns of the Mughal emperors count amongs...
International audienceAn account of the night-time sessions presided over by the Mughal emperor Jahā...
This thesis focuses on the political discourse of Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah (r.1556-1605) and its ap...
This dissertation traces the role of first-person narratives in the writing of Mughal history. Begin...
In the seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire in South Asia witnessed a remarkable political experim...
International audienceSince the time of Bābur, the Safavids--rather than the Ottomans or the Uzbeks-...
International audienceGoing against the idea that the 18th century corresponded in South Asia to a g...
This article deals with the representation of the space of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century...
International audienceTaking into account the renewal of general propositions in the historiography ...
International audienceThe present contribution surveys the different ways in which imperial authorit...
International audienceThis book is the first academic monograph devoted to the reign of the fourth M...
In this article, Mughal understandings of their own past are reconstructed from the standpoint of Mu...
International audienceContrary to what the "Indocentrism" that has long prevailed in the field of Mu...
International audienceThis article argues against the common view according to which the Mughal empe...
The Fiscal Bases of the Mughal State. Problems of Structure and Evolution 1550-1750. The historiog...
The Persian language court chronicles composed during the reigns of the Mughal emperors count amongs...
International audienceAn account of the night-time sessions presided over by the Mughal emperor Jahā...
This thesis focuses on the political discourse of Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah (r.1556-1605) and its ap...
This dissertation traces the role of first-person narratives in the writing of Mughal history. Begin...
In the seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire in South Asia witnessed a remarkable political experim...
International audienceSince the time of Bābur, the Safavids--rather than the Ottomans or the Uzbeks-...
International audienceGoing against the idea that the 18th century corresponded in South Asia to a g...
This article deals with the representation of the space of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century...