Life Stories in Mughal India by Shivangini Tandon - 9781032991320

Life Stories in Mughal IndiaIndo-Persian Biographies, 16th-18th centuries\nAuthor(s): Shivangini Tandon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032991320, 978-1032991320\nSynopsis\nSituated at the intersections between history and literature, the book explores the life-stories written in the Mughal period to recover socio-cultural developments in the period. It focuses on the genre of life-stories and looks at the complex interactions between agency and the ruling structure in shaping historical formations.\n\nThe biographical dictionaries explored in this book highlight the significance of the agency of political actors, and the strategies through which the aristocrats and the elites reproduced the political system. At the same time, these texts are also quite helpful in recovering processes through which the ordinary people, in routine, everyday forms negotiated with and contested the political system. Delving i.