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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
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-aPerforming Authority between Cultures: Rituals and Diplomacy under the Yuan
(Language: English)
Francesca Fiaschetti, European Research Council Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Index terms: Anthropology, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1619-bMarriage and Kinship of the Early Mughals in India
(Language: English)
Shadab Bano, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh
Index terms: Daily Life, Genealogy and Prosopography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History
Paper 1619-cImperial Forms and Local Sensitivities in South Asia, 1330–1500
(Language: English)
Roy Fischel, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
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.