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dc.contributor.authorKinra, Rajeev
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-12 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:21:06Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier602279
dc.identifierOCN: 923818582en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32861
dc.description.abstract"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four emperors: Akbar (1556–1605), Jahangir (1605–1627), Shah Jahan (1628–1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658–1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence. Chandar Bhan was a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way; his experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSouth Asia Across the Disciplines
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theoryen_US
dc.subject.othermunshi
dc.subject.otherindo-persian literature
dc.subject.otherchandar bhan brahman
dc.subject.othermughal empire
dc.subject.otherAurangzeb
dc.subject.otherHinduism
dc.subject.otherIndia
dc.subject.otherShah Jahan
dc.titleWriting Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.3
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520961685
oapen.pages394
oapen.place.publicationOakland, California
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Aurangzeb - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb; Hinduism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism; India - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India; Mughal Empire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire; Persians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persians; Shah Jahan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan
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