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CR 0-07 Law Building
Time: Tuesday, February 21 (12 pm-1:30 pm)
Location: CR 0-07 Law School Building
Abstract:
What happened in Mughal India in the quarter century after Akbar’s death? Nothing that really mattered – according to received wisdom. Through a complete re-examination of the reign of the fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir, this book upends that traditional view. Rather than provide a linear history of this relatively neglected monarch, Lefèvre analyses a wide range of imperial and non-imperial texts, as well as vestiges of material culture, to reveal major transformations involving imperial authority, ethno-religious diversity, and state centralism.
Speaker:
Corinne Lefèvre is a CNRS Research Fellow at Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Paris. Her works offers a new perspective on the political and cultural history of the Mughal empire by locating it in the larger context of early modern Muslim Asia. Her book, Consolidating Empire. Power and elites in Jahāngīr’s India (1605-1627), was published by Permanent Black in 2022.
