Domesticity And Power In The Early Mughal World

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In a fascinating and innovative study, first published in 2005, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.

• ISBN bar code 9780521850223 ξ2 registered February 02 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521850223 ξ1 registered September 18 2015
  
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In a fascinating and innovative study, first published in 2005, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, the author reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers as well as the 'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and Safavid histories as a counterpoint, she demonstrates the richness, ambiguity and particularity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalisation and imperial excellence.

^ Ruby Lal (2013). Domesticity And Power In The Early Mughal World, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521850223 (revised Sep 2015)
^ Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization: Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal (2005, Hardcover) ISBN 9780521850223 (revised Jun 2019)