IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1619: Being Imperial in the East, I: Place, Power, and Practice
Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Geoffrey Humble, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham / ERC Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Moderator/Chair: | Geoffrey Humble, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham / ERC Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Paper 1619-a | Performing Authority between Cultures: Rituals and Diplomacy under the Yuan (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1619-b | Marriage and Kinship of the Early Mughals in India (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Genealogy and Prosopography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
Paper 1619-c | Imperial Forms and Local Sensitivities in South Asia, 1330–1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought, Social History |
Abstract | This session highlights social and historiographical implications of cross-cultural strategies in balancing local and imperial factors in Mongol and post-Mongol Asian polities. Francesca Fiaschetti analyzes the implications of value-laden Yuan-dynasty diplomatic ritual for reading processes of identity formation and concepts of the Other. Shadab Bano focusses on the adaptation of Central Asian marriage and kinship practices in late medieval India, tracing the development of distinctively Mughal norms. Roy S. Fischel exposes the complexity and contradictions of the Bahmanid Sultanate's balancing of the local and the central in South Asia, and the effects of this across subjects at all levels. |