Verfügbarkeit: Mughal Arcadia

Mughal Arcadia: Persian literature in an Indian court

This book is a study of the creation and demise of a poetic utopia at the Mughal court in early modern South Asia. The Mughals set up an empire in northern India in the early sixteenth century based on a Perso-Islamic model but ruled over an extremely diverse populace. In order to enhance their repu...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser:	Sharma, Sunil 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2017
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1500-1700 Indo-Iranian literature > History and criticism Persisch Höfische Literatur Mogul Empire > Court and courtiers > History Mogul Empire > Civilization Mogul Empire > Intellectual life Mogulreich
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension
Zusammenfassung:	This book is a study of the creation and demise of a poetic utopia at the Mughal court in early modern South Asia. The Mughals set up an empire in northern India in the early sixteenth century based on a Perso-Islamic model but ruled over an extremely diverse populace. In order to enhance their reputation in the Islamic world, the Mughals welcomed poets, artists, and scholars from different Persophone societies, many of whom migrated to India either to flee persecution or in search of better economic prospects. Poetry was central to all forms of courtly life at this time, giving poets a prestigious role, especially those who were native speakers of Persian, sometimes leading to tensions between émigré poets and local Indian ones. While the vibrant life in cities was the usual subject of topographical poetry, the apex of this cosmopolitan age was the court's preference for the valley of Kashmir as a setting for the practice of poetry, one that symbolized the idea of the empire as Arcadia. Due to several historical and political reasons, around the mid-seventeenth century the Mughal court lost its appeal as a refuge for literati, marking a major shift in the movement of individuals and the centers of Persian literary culture....
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	266 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:	9780674975859

Internformat

MARC


LEADER	00000nam a2200000 c 4500
001	BV044627187
003	DE-604
005	20180702
007	t
008	171115s2017 xxua\|\|\| \|\|\|\| 00\|\|\| eng d
010			\|a 017006230
020			\|a 9780674975859 \|c hbk \|9 978-0-674-97585-9
035			\|a (OCoLC)990164426
035			\|a (DE-599)BVBBV044627187
040			\|a DE-604 \|b ger \|e rda
041	0		\|a eng
044			\|a xxu \|c US
049			\|a DE-473 \|a DE-188 \|a DE-12 \|a DE-Y3 \|a DE-19
050		0	\|a PK80
082	0		\|a 891/.5509954 \|2 23
084			\|a EV 4560 \|0 (DE-625)28770: \|2 rvk
100	1		\|a Sharma, Sunil \|d 1964- \|e Verfasser \|0 (DE-588)1150266430 \|4 aut
245	1	0	\|a Mughal Arcadia \|b Persian literature in an Indian court \|c Sunil Sharma
264		1	\|a Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England \|b Harvard University Press \|c 2017
300			\|a 266 Seiten \|b Illustrationen, Karte
336			\|b txt \|2 rdacontent
337			\|b n \|2 rdamedia
338			\|b nc \|2 rdacarrier
500			\|a Includes bibliographical references and index
520			\|a This book is a study of the creation and demise of a poetic utopia at the Mughal court in early modern South Asia. The Mughals set up an empire in northern India in the early sixteenth century based on a Perso-Islamic model but ruled over an extremely diverse populace. In order to enhance their reputation in the Islamic world, the Mughals welcomed poets, artists, and scholars from different Persophone societies, many of whom migrated to India either to flee persecution or in search of better economic prospects. Poetry was central to all forms of courtly life at this time, giving poets a prestigious role, especially those who were native speakers of Persian, sometimes leading to tensions between émigré poets and local Indian ones. While the vibrant life in cities was the usual subject of topographical poetry, the apex of this cosmopolitan age was the court's preference for the valley of Kashmir as a setting for the practice of poetry, one that symbolized the idea of the empire as Arcadia. Due to several historical and political reasons, around the mid-seventeenth century the Mughal court lost its appeal as a refuge for literati, marking a major shift in the movement of individuals and the centers of Persian literary culture....
648		7	\|a Geschichte 1500-1700 \|2 gnd \|9 rswk-swf
650		4	\|a Indo-Iranian literature \|x History and criticism
650	0	7	\|a Persisch \|0 (DE-588)4065403-5 \|2 gnd \|9 rswk-swf
650	0	7	\|a Höfische Literatur \|0 (DE-588)4025340-5 \|2 gnd \|9 rswk-swf
651		4	\|a Mogul Empire \|x Court and courtiers \|x History
651		4	\|a Mogul Empire \|x Civilization
651		4	\|a Mogul Empire \|x Intellectual life
651		7	\|a Mogulreich \|0 (DE-588)4074930-7 \|2 gnd \|9 rswk-swf
689	0	0	\|a Mogulreich \|0 (DE-588)4074930-7 \|D g
689	0	1	\|a Persisch \|0 (DE-588)4065403-5 \|D s
689	0	2	\|a Höfische Literatur \|0 (DE-588)4025340-5 \|D s
689	0	3	\|a Geschichte 1500-1700 \|A z
689	0		\|5 DE-604
856	4	2	\|m LoC Fremddatenuebernahme \|q application/pdf \|u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA \|3 Inhaltsverzeichnis
856	4	2	\|m SWB Datenaustausch \|q application/pdf \|u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA \|3 Rezension
943	1		\|a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-030025314

Datensatz im Suchindex

_version_	1810981010708365312
adam_text	MUGHAL ARCADIA / SHARMA, SUNILYYD1964-YYEAUTHOR : 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS INTRODUCTION: LINGUA PERSICA MUGHAL PERSIAN LITERARY CULTURE THE MUGHAL DISCOVERY OF INDIA CELEBRATING IMPERIAL CITIES MUGHAL ARCADIA CONCLUSION: PARADISE LOST DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT. SUNIL SHARMA. MUGHAL ARCADIA: PERSIAN LITERATURE IN AN INDIAN COURT. CAMBRIDGE: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017. 280 PP. $39.95 (CLOTH), ISBN 978-0-674-97585-9. REVIEWED BY DIVYA CHERIAN (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) PUBLISHED ON H-ASIA (JANUARY, 2019) COMMISSIONED BY SUMIT GUHA (HE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) CULTIVATING PARADISE: PERSIAN LITERATURE AND MUGHAL KINGSHIP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MUGHAL ARCADIA IS A GROUNDBREAKING CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY AND TO THE HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE. SHARMA ARGUES THAT FOR MOST OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, PARTICULARLY IN THE REIGNS OF JAHANGIR (R. 1605-27) AND SHAHJAHAN (R. 1628-58), THE MUGHAL COURT FUELED THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW TYPE OF LIT- ERATURE IN PERSIAN THAT ENGAGED WITH PLACETHAT IS, WITH THE ACTUAL LOCALES IN WHICH THE MUGHAL COURT WAS SITU- ATED AND NOT JUST THE ABSTRACT, IDEALIZED ONES OF INHERITED PERSIAN LITERARY GENRES. IN SHAHJAHANS REIGN, AS MUGHAL COURTLY ELITES AND THE POETS THEY PATRONIZED TRAVELED BE- YOND URBAN CENTERS, THIS TOPOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE SHITED FROM A FOCUS ON CITIES TO AN APPRECIATION OF THE BUCOLIC CHARMS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, KASHMIR, WHICH AKBAR INCORPORATED INTO THE MUGHAL EM- PIRE IN 1586, WAS THE PASTORAL LOCALE THAT CAME TO HOLD A PREEMINENT PLACE BOTH IN THE AFECTIVE TIES THAT BOUND THE MUGHAL ROYAL FAMILY TO INDIA, THE UNFAMILIAR LAND THAT HAD BECOME THEIR HOME AND TERRITORY, AND IN THEIR REPRE- SENTATION OF THEIR EMPIRE TO A TRANSREGIONAL PERSOPHONE AUDIENCE. HE RISE OF THE NEW GENRE OF PLACE-CENTRIC POETRY IN- TERSECTED WITH THIS NEW SIGNIICANCE OF KASHMIR TO CREATE A BODY OF LITERATURE THAT, SHARMA ARGUES, OCCUPIES A DIS- TINCT NICHE IN THE HISTORY OF MUGHAL LITERATURE. HIS LIT- ERATURE, ON KASHMIR AS PARADISE, SERVED AS AN IMPORTANT BUILDING BLOCK IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MUGHAL AUTHORITY AND OF THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF BOTH MUGHAL RULE AND THE IDEA OF KASHMIR. AT IRST, POETS BORN AND RAISED IN IRAN DOMINATED THE COMPOSITION OF MUGHAL LITERATURE, INCLUD- ING THIS NEW DIRECTION IN IT. BY SHAHJAHANS REIGN, HOW- EVER, POETS OF INDIAN BIRTH, INCLUDING HINDUS, ALSO BEGAN TO PLAY A SIGNIICANT ROLE IN THIS LITERARY IELD. HIS PAR- TICULAR LITERARY AND AFECTIVE MOMENT PASSED BY THE LAST DECADES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AS AURANGZEB SHITED HIS FOCUS ON EXPANDING THE EMPIRE SOUTHWARDS, IN THE DECCAN, AND AS THE LOW OF IRANIAN EMIGRES FROM SAFAVID LANDS EBBED DUE TO CHANGED HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES. MUGHAL ARCADIA JOINS A PLETHORA OF NEW BOOKS ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE (1526-1857), WITH SOME NOTABLE EXAMPLES BEING THOSE BY ALLISON BUSCH, RA- JEEV KINRA , AND AUDREY TRUSCHKE.[1] IT ALSO IS AN IMPOR- TANT NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAN- GUAGE AND POWER MORE GENERALLY BUT ON PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND MUGHAL AUTHORITY IN PARTICULAR, FOLLOWING IN THE FOOT- STEPS OF MUZAFAR ALAMS WORK IN THIS AREA TWO DECADES AGO.[2] AS RECENT WRITING HAS MADE CLEAR, MUGHAL LITERA- TURE EXTENDED BEYOND PERSIAN INTO A RANGE OF OTHER LAN- GUAGES SUCH AS HINDI, SANSKRIT, TURKI, URDU, AND ARABIC. YET, PERSIAN ENJOYED A CERTAIN HEGEMONY AMONG THESE LANGUAGES, BEING THE LANGUAGE OF HIGH CULTURE, ADMINIS- TRATION, AND POLITICS IN THE MUGHAL PERIOD. MUGHAL PER- SIAN POETRY CONSISTS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VERSES AND FOR A CENTURY OR SO IT WAS WIDELY READ ACROSS THE PER- SOPHONE WORLD, THAT IS, FROM THE BALKANS TO BENGAL. DE- SPITE THIS, MUGHAL PERSIAN LITERATURE HAS YET TO RECEIVE THE SUSTAINED SCHOLARLY ATENTION THAT IS COMMENSURATE TO ITS VASTNESS AND SIGNIICANCE. MUGHAL ARCADIA DRAWS ATEN- 1 H-NET REVIEWS TION TO NEW AREAS OF PERSIAN LITERATURE THAT HAVE EITHER BEEN QUICKLY GLOSSED OVER IN GENERAL SURVEYS OR NEGLECTED DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING FOCUS ON THE GHAZAL (LOVE LYRIC) IN MUGHAL INDIA. FURTHER, WHILE SCHOLARS HAVE PAINTED A VIVID PORTRAIT OF IRANIANS IN MUGHAL INDIA[3] OR MEN- TIONED THEIR DOMINANCE OF MUGHAL LITERARY PRODUCTION IN AKBARS REIGN,[4] FEW HAVE CLOSELY STUDIED THE COM- POSITIONS THEY HAVE LET BEHIND. MUGHAL ARCADIA HOLDS THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF A SELECTION OF INDIVIDUAL POETS, MANY OF THEM IRANIAN EMIGRES, AT THE CORE OF ITS ARGU- MENT. JAMALUDDIN MUHAMMAD URI OF SHIRAZ, THE INDIAN- BORN FAIZI, ABUL BARAKAT MUNIR OF LAHORE, ABU TALIB KALIM OF HAMADAN (SHAHJAHANS POET LAUREATE, OR MALIK AL-SHUARA ), AND SAYYID ALI SAIDI ARE SOME POETS WHOSE WORK IS ANALYZED. HE BOOK THUS MOVES ATENTION AWAY FROM THE PATRONS OF LITERARY PRODUCTIONTHE ROYAL FAM- ILY AND THE MOST POWERFUL NOBLESTO THE ACTUAL POETS EN- GAGED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THESE CULTURAL ARTIFACTS. HE HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE IN SOUTH ASIA IS A LONG ONE, WITH PUNJAB BEING DRAWN INTO THE PERSIANATE SPHERE UNDER THE INLUENCE OF THE GHAZNAVID COURT IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY, AN ELORESCENCE OF PERSIAN LITERATURE FURTHER EAST IN THE DELHI REGION IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOUR- TEENTH CENTURIES, FUELED BY MONGOL INVASIONS OF THE IRA- NIAN PLATEAU, UNDER THE DELHI SULTANATE. FROM THE SIX- TEENTH CENTURY, THE SULTANATES IN THE DECCAN WERE A MA- JOR DRAW TO IRANIANS SEEKING FAME AND FORTUNE ABROAD. IN HIS IRST CHAPTER, SHARMA SHOWS THAT FROM THE LATER HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, NORTH INDIA ONCE AGAIN BE- GAN TO DRAW IRANIANS IN LARGE NUMBERS, DUE TO UNFAVOR- ABLE CONDITIONS IN IRAN AND THE PRESTIGE ENJOYED BY PER- SIAN AND IRANIANS IN AKBARS REIGN (R. 1556 -1605). HERE, SHARMA HANDLES IRANIAN ATITUDES TOWARD INDIA WITH NU- ANCE, POINTING TO A RANGE OF RESPONSESFROM CELEBRATION TO DISLIKETHAT MAY HAVE BEEN FELT EVEN BY THE SAME INDI- VIDUAL AT DIFERENT POINTS IN TIME. IRANIAN EMIGRES AND IN- DIAN POETS ALIKE DREW UPON OLDER PERSIAN LITERARY TROPES SUCH AS THAT OF HIND-I JIGARKHVAR (LIVER-EATING INDIA), OF HINDI AS A TWISTED LANGUAGE ( KAJMAJ ZABANI ), AND OF THE DARKNESS OF INDIA ( KISHVAR-I ZULMAT ) OR THE BLACK* HINDU CONTRASTING WITH THE LIGHT OF IRAN OR THE LIGHT-SKINNED IRANIAN, ALTHOUGH THE LATER BINARY (DARKNESS/LIGHT) COULD ALSO BE TURNED ON ITS HEAD TO PRESENT INDIA AS THE BET- TER PLACE OF THE TWO. AT THE SAME TIME, OTHER PRE- SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIANATE REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIA COULD BE IN A LAUDATORY VEIN, AS PARADISE AND A REFUGE (PRIMARILY DUE TO THE DISSEMINATION AND CANONIZATION OF AMIR KHUSRAUS POETRY), OR AS A LAND OF MARVELS AND MAGIC. SHARMA SHOWS THAT THE INDIAN ENVIRONMENT AND MUGHAL PATRONAGE RESHAPED PERSIAN LITERATURE FAR BEYOND SOUTH ASIA. AKBARS REIGN LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR A SHIT IN THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF PERSIAN LITERARY PRODUCTION, AS MANY CONTEMPORARIES OBSERVED, AWAY FROM THE LAN- GUAGES HOMELAND TO INDIA. HE MUGHAL COURT SPONSORED A SELF-CONSCIOUSLY FRESH STYLE, OR TAZA GUI, IN PERSIAN COM- POSITION, THE VOGUE FOR WHICH SOON SPREAD ACROSS THE PER- SOPHONE WORLD. TEXTS AND VERSES COMPOSED IN INDIA WERE IN DEMAND BY AUDIENCES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SAFAVID IRAN, OTOMAN LANDS, AND CENTRAL ASIA. EVEN AS OLDER LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIA AS A LAND OF MARVELS OR AS A PARADISE AND REFUGE FRAMED THE INI- TIAL APPROACH OF MUGHAL KINGS AND COURTLY ELITES TO INDIA, MORE TEXTURED, OBSERVATION-BASED WRITING ABOUT THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE BEGAN TO EMERGE AS INDIA BECAME HOME. IN THE SECOND CHAPTER OF MUGHAL ARCADIA , SHARMA TRACES THE RISE OF WRITING ABOUT ACTUAL LOCALES, PLACES, AND PEOPLE IN INDIA, BASED ON IRSTHAND EXPERIENCE. HE SHOWS HOW THE GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE KASHMIR VALLEY, WITH ITS COOL CLIMES, VERDANT VALLEYS, AND SCENIC TERRAIN, LENT ITSELF TO ITS SPECIAL PLACE IN MUGHAL SELF-PRESENTATION AS A MICROCOSM OF THEIR EMPIRE. FOR IRANIAN EMIGRES, WHETHER SUIS OR POETS, KASHMIR CAME TO BE SEEN AS LITLE IRAN* ( IRAN-I SAGHIR ) DUE TO ITS CLIMATE AND TERRAIN RESEMBLING SUCH IRANIAN REGIONS AS MAZANDARAN AND GILAN. MANY IRA- NIAN POETS SETLED DOWN IN KASHMIR AND, ITINGLY, SHAH- JAHANS IRANIAN-ORIGIN POET LAUREATE DIED THERE. HIS IS EXPLORED FURTHER IN THE THIRD CHAPTER, IN WHICH SHARMA SPELLS OUT HOW THE MUGHALS, PARTICULARLY UNDER JAHANGIR AND HIS IRANIAN-ORIGIN EMPRESS, NUR JAHAN, SAW KASHMIR AS AN ACTUALIZATION OF WHAT WAS CELEBRATED IN PERSIAN GARDEN POETRY. IF IT TOOK A LEAP OF IMAGINATION TO CONJURE UP A PERSIAN GARDEN IN OTHER LOVELY SPOTS, BEING IN KASHMIR DID NOT REQUIRE ANY SUCH EFORT. HE WHOLE PLACE WAS ONE BIG GARDEN* (P. 83). IN THE REIGNS OF JA- HANGIR AND SHAHJAHAN, THE MUGHALS SET ABOUT ORNAMENT- ING THIS BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE WITH ORDERED GARDENS AND PAVILIONS. IN THE FOURTH CHAPTER, WHICH IS THE MOST CEN- TRAL TO THE BOOKS ARGUMENT, SHARMA SHOWS HOW EXISTING GENRES WITHIN TOPOGRAPHICAL POETRY CAME TOGETHER AND EXTENDED TO INCLUDE THE COUNTRYSIDE IN SHAHJAHANS REIGN. HE PRE-ISLAMIC PERSIAN IDEAL OF THE KING AS GARDENER CON- TINUED TO BE INLUENTIAL IN PERSIANATE SOCIETIES. IN SHAH- JAHANS KINGLY SELF-REPRESENTATION, THE PROPAGATION OF THE IMAGE OF KASHMIR AS A PARADISIACAL GARDEN LOURISHING IN HIS CARE WAS THEN A METAPHOR, IN THE HANDS OF COURT PRO- PAGANDISTS, FOR HIS TENDING TO THE GARDEN THAT WAS HIS EMPIRE. HESE COMPOSITIONS, AS SHARMA SKILLFULLY SHOWS, WERE PART OF THE WIDER BODY OF PAINTING, ARCHITECTURE, AND LITERATURE THAT SHAHJAHAN COMMISSIONED TO REPRESENT HIS 2 H-NET REVIEWS AUTHORITY TO BOTH HIS SUBJECTS AS WELL AS TO PERSOPHONE AUDIENCES BEYOND HIS DOMAIN. KASHMIRS PERCEPTION AS A SPIRITUAL LAND ALSO GREW IN SHAHJAHANS REIGN, WITH ITS BEAUTY SEEN AS A MANIFESTATION OF A HIGHER REALITY* (P. 166). HIS LITERARY MOMENT CAME TO AN END IN THE LAST YEARS OF SHAHJAHANS REIGN, WITH THE MUGHAL STATE EMBROILED IN A LONG CIVIL WAR. SHAHJAHANS SUCCESSOR, AURANGZEB, HAD LITLE INTEREST IN SPONSORING POETRY AND SUBSEQUENT MUGHALS* RESOURCES WERE SIGNIICANTLY REDUCED. HE DRY- ING UP OF PATRONAGE IN INDIA SLOWED THE MIGRATION OF IRA- NIANS TO THE REGION AND POETS OF INDIAN BIRTH, WHETHER MUSLIM OR HINDU, BEGAN TO DOMINATE THE COMPOSITION OF PERSIAN POETRY IN SOUTH ASIA. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SAFAVIDS AND THE MUGHALS COOLED ATER THE MUGHAL LOSS OF QANDAHAR. ATRACTION TO INDIA CHANGED INTO AMBIVALENCE AND DISTANCE. BY THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IRANIANS RE- JECTED THE FRESH STYLE OF PERSIAN POETRY ASSOCIATED WITH MUGHAL INDIA AND SOUGHT TO REVIVE AN OLDER, PURER STYLE. WHILE PERSIAN POETRY CONTINUED TO LOWER IN INDIA UN- TIL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE IDEA OF INDIA IN THE WIDER PERSOPHONE LITERARY IMAGINATION AS A LAND TENDED BY THE MUGHALS INTO A PARADISE ON EARTH WITHERED AWAY WITH THE MUGHAL STATE. SHARMAS MASTERY OF PERSIAN LITERARY GENRES, TROPES, METAPHORS, AND INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IS IMPRESSIVE AND ONLY UNDERSCORES JUST HOW INDISPENSABLE SUCH A TOOLKIT IS TO A GOOD ANALYSIS OF MUGHAL-ERA PERSIAN LITERATURE. AT THE SAME TIME, THROUGHOUT THE WORK, SHARMA UNDERSCORES THE PERMEABILITY AND MUTUAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE PER- SIAN LITERARY SPHERE AND LITERARY CULTURES IN OTHER SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES, WHETHER SANSKRIT OR REGIONAL VERNACU- LARS (FOR INSTANCE, PP. 44-52, 130, 142-43). MUGHAL ARCA- DIA IS AS A RESULT IMPRESSIVE IN ITS ABILITY TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE MUGHAL PERSIAN LITERATURE THAT IS ITS SUBJECT AGAINST BOTH THE TRANSREGIONAL PERSOPHONE WORLD AND THE SUBCON- TINENTAL INDIC SETING THAT CONDITIONED ITS PRODUCTION. ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL ACHIEVEMENT OF MUGHAL ARCADIA IS THE WAY ITS RELECTIONS ON LITERATURE SHED NEW LIGHT ON PAINTINGS FROM THE MUGHAL ERA, SOME ICONIC AND SOME LESS KNOWN. HE MOST IMPRESSIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THIS IS IN THE SECTION (PP. 143-55) DEALING WITH AN ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT COPY OF A COMPILATION OF THE POEMS OF ZA- FAR KHAN, MUGHAL GOVERNOR OF KASHMIR IN THE 1630S AND 40S. HIS MANUSCRIPT HAS RECEIVED ATENTION LARGELY FROM ART HISTORIANS AND SO FAR, THEY HAVE FOUND LITLE CONNEC- TION BETWEEN THE IVE DOUBLE-PAGED PAINTINGS AND THE THREE MASNAVIS (NARRATIVE POEM IN RHYMED COUPLETS) IN IT. SHARMAS SKILLFUL READING OF THE TEXT MAKE POSSIBLE THE DRAWING OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE PAINTINGS AND THE TEXT. SHARMA MOVES DIALOGICALLY BETWEEN IMAGE AND VERSE TO PRESENT A FRESH ANALYSIS OF BOTH. HERE IS AN EXAM- PLE OF THE COMPLEMENTARITY OF LITERARY AND ART-HISTORICAL STUDY FOR MUGHAL INDIA, AND A DEMONSTRATION OF THE RE- WARDS OF A METHODOLOGY THAT COMBINES BOTH. HE BOOK OFERS A TEXTURED HISTORY OF THE INTERCON- NECTEDNESS OF IRAN AND SOUTH ASIA. HOUGH MUGHAL AR- CADIA IS FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, IT ALSO PAINTS A VIVID PORTRAIT OF THE BONDS BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONS FROM THE MONGOL INVASIONS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY INTO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH COLONIALISM IN THE NINETEENTH. FOR NORTH INDIA, THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MAY INDEED HAVE BEEN THE PEAK OF THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO LANDS AND FOR THAT REASON, THE BOOKS FO- CUS ON THE LITERARY ASPECT OF THESE TIES IS VALUABLE. HE INLUX OF IRANIAN EMIGRES AND THE DENSITY OF LITERARY CIR- CUITS AT THIS TIME WAS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN SHAPING THE PARTICULAR TRAJECTORIES THAT NOT ONLY INDO-PERSIAN LIT- ERATURE BUT ALSO SOUTH ASIAN CULTURE AND POLITICS TOOK. HE SIGNIICANCE OF MUGHAL ARCADIA IS MANIFOLD. IT IDENTIIES AND EXPLAINS A LITERARY DEVELOPMENTPASTORAL POETRY IN MUGHAL INDIATHAT WILL BE OF INTEREST TO SCHOL- ARS OF PERSIAN LITERATURE. FOR HISTORIANS OF EARLY MOD- ERN INDIA, IT SHOWS THE SIGNIICANCE OF POETRY IN CRATING MUGHAL KINGSHIP AND THE TIES THAT WOVE TOGETHER THE MUL- TIETHNIC NOBLES AND ADMINISTRATORS OF THE MUGHAL STATE. READ FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF THE PRESENT, THE BOOKS RE- CONSTRUCTION OF A TIME IN WHICH LOURISHING SOCIETIES WEL- COMED REFUGEES IS A POIGNANT ONE, AS IS THE POWER OF THE METAPHOR OF KASHMIR AS A SYNECDOCHE FOR A LOURISHING INDIA. NOTES [1]. ALLISON BUSCH, POETRY OF KINGS: HE CLASSICAL HINDI LITERATURE OF MUGHAL INDIA (NEW YORK: OXFORD UNI- VERSITY PRESS, 2011); RAJEEV KINRA, WRITING SELF, WRITING EMPIRE: CHANDAR BHAN BRAHMAN AND THE CULTURAL WORLD OF THE INDO-PERSIAN STATE SECRETARY (OAKLAND, CA: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2015); AND AUDREY TRUSCHKE, CULTURE OF ENCOUNTERS: SANSKRIT AT THE MUGHAL COURT (NEW YORK: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016). [2]. MUZAFAR ALAM, HE PURSUIT OF PERSIAN: LAN- GUAGE IN MUGHAL POLITICS, MODERN ASIAN STUDIES 32, NO. 2 (1998): 317-49; AND LANGUAGE AND POWER, IN HE LAN- GUAGES OF POLITICAL ISLAM IN INDIA , C. 1200-1800, ED. MUZAF- FAR ALAM ( NEW DELHI: PERMANENT BLACK), 115-40. [3]. SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, IRANIANS ABROAD: INTRA- 3 H-NET REVIEWS ASIAN ELITE MIGRATION AND STATE FORMATION, JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 51, NO. 2 (1992): 340-63. [4]. ALAM, HE PURSUIT OF PERSIAN; AND LANGUAGE AND POWER. IF THERE IS ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION OF THIS REVIEW, YOU MAY ACCESS IT THROUGH THE NETWORK, AT: HTPS://NETWORKS.H-NET.ORG/H-ASIA CITATION: DIVYA CHERIAN. REVIEW OF SHARMA, SUNIL, MUGHAL ARCADIA: PERSIAN LITERATURE IN AN INDIAN COURT . H-ASIA, H-NET REVIEWS. JANUARY, 2019. URL: HTP://WWW.H-NET.ORG/REVIEWS/SHOWREV.PHP?ID=51825 HIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL- NO DERIVATIVE WORKS 3.0 UNITED STATES LICENSE. 4
any_adam_object	1
author	Sharma, Sunil 1964-
author_GND	(DE-588)1150266430
author_facet	Sharma, Sunil 1964-
author_role	aut
author_sort	Sharma, Sunil 1964-
author_variant	s s ss
building	Verbundindex
bvnumber	BV044627187
callnumber-first	P - Language and Literature
callnumber-label	PK80
callnumber-raw	PK80
callnumber-search	PK80
callnumber-sort	PK 280
callnumber-subject	PK - Indo-Iranian
classification_rvk	EV 4560
ctrlnum	(OCoLC)990164426 (DE-599)BVBBV044627187
dewey-full	891/.5509954
dewey-hundreds	800 - Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
dewey-ones	891 - East Indo-European and Celtic literatures
dewey-raw	891/.5509954
dewey-search	891/.5509954
dewey-sort	3891 75509954
dewey-tens	890 - Literatures of other languages
discipline	Indoiranistik Literaturwissenschaft
era	Geschichte 1500-1700 gnd
era_facet	Geschichte 1500-1700
format	Book
fullrecord	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>00000nam a2200000 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV044627187</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20180702</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">171115s2017 xxua\|\|\| \|\|\|\| 00\|\|\| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">017006230</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780674975859</subfield><subfield code="c">hbk</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-674-97585-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)990164426</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV044627187</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">xxu</subfield><subfield code="c">US</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-188</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-Y3</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-19</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">PK80</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">891/.5509954</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EV 4560</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)28770:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Sharma, Sunil</subfield><subfield code="d">1964-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1150266430</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mughal Arcadia</subfield><subfield code="b">Persian literature in an Indian court</subfield><subfield code="c">Sunil Sharma</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England</subfield><subfield code="b">Harvard University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">266 Seiten</subfield><subfield code="b">Illustrationen, Karte</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references and index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">This book is a study of the creation and demise of a poetic utopia at the Mughal court in early modern South Asia. The Mughals set up an empire in northern India in the early sixteenth century based on a Perso-Islamic model but ruled over an extremely diverse populace. In order to enhance their reputation in the Islamic world, the Mughals welcomed poets, artists, and scholars from different Persophone societies, many of whom migrated to India either to flee persecution or in search of better economic prospects. Poetry was central to all forms of courtly life at this time, giving poets a prestigious role, especially those who were native speakers of Persian, sometimes leading to tensions between émigré poets and local Indian ones. While the vibrant life in cities was the usual subject of topographical poetry, the apex of this cosmopolitan age was the court's preference for the valley of Kashmir as a setting for the practice of poetry, one that symbolized the idea of the empire as Arcadia. Due to several historical and political reasons, around the mid-seventeenth century the Mughal court lost its appeal as a refuge for literati, marking a major shift in the movement of individuals and the centers of Persian literary culture....</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1500-1700</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Indo-Iranian literature</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Persisch</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4065403-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Höfische Literatur</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4025340-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mogul Empire</subfield><subfield code="x">Court and courtiers</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mogul Empire</subfield><subfield code="x">Civilization</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mogul Empire</subfield><subfield code="x">Intellectual life</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Mogulreich</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4074930-7</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mogulreich</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4074930-7</subfield><subfield code="D">g</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Persisch</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4065403-5</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Höfische Literatur</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4025340-5</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="3"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1500-1700</subfield><subfield code="A">z</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">LoC Fremddatenuebernahme</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">SWB Datenaustausch</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Rezension</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-030025314</subfield></datafield></record></collection>
geographic	Mogul Empire Court and courtiers History Mogul Empire Civilization Mogul Empire Intellectual life Mogulreich (DE-588)4074930-7 gnd
geographic_facet	Mogul Empire Court and courtiers History Mogul Empire Civilization Mogul Empire Intellectual life Mogulreich
id	DE-604.BV044627187
illustrated	Illustrated
indexdate	2024-09-23T10:07:57Z
institution	BVB
isbn	9780674975859
language	English
lccn	017006230
oai_aleph_id	oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-030025314
oclc_num	990164426
open_access_boolean
owner	DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-188 DE-12 DE-Y3 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM
owner_facet	DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-188 DE-12 DE-Y3 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM
physical	266 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
publishDate	2017
publishDateSearch	2017
publishDateSort	2017
publisher	Harvard University Press
record_format	marc
spelling	Sharma, Sunil 1964- Verfasser (DE-588)1150266430 aut Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court Sunil Sharma Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2017 266 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index This book is a study of the creation and demise of a poetic utopia at the Mughal court in early modern South Asia. The Mughals set up an empire in northern India in the early sixteenth century based on a Perso-Islamic model but ruled over an extremely diverse populace. In order to enhance their reputation in the Islamic world, the Mughals welcomed poets, artists, and scholars from different Persophone societies, many of whom migrated to India either to flee persecution or in search of better economic prospects. Poetry was central to all forms of courtly life at this time, giving poets a prestigious role, especially those who were native speakers of Persian, sometimes leading to tensions between émigré poets and local Indian ones. While the vibrant life in cities was the usual subject of topographical poetry, the apex of this cosmopolitan age was the court's preference for the valley of Kashmir as a setting for the practice of poetry, one that symbolized the idea of the empire as Arcadia. Due to several historical and political reasons, around the mid-seventeenth century the Mughal court lost its appeal as a refuge for literati, marking a major shift in the movement of individuals and the centers of Persian literary culture.... Geschichte 1500-1700 gnd rswk-swf Indo-Iranian literature History and criticism Persisch (DE-588)4065403-5 gnd rswk-swf Höfische Literatur (DE-588)4025340-5 gnd rswk-swf Mogul Empire Court and courtiers History Mogul Empire Civilization Mogul Empire Intellectual life Mogulreich (DE-588)4074930-7 gnd rswk-swf Mogulreich (DE-588)4074930-7 g Persisch (DE-588)4065403-5 s Höfische Literatur (DE-588)4025340-5 s Geschichte 1500-1700 z DE-604 LoC Fremddatenuebernahme application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Rezension
spellingShingle	Sharma, Sunil 1964- Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court Indo-Iranian literature History and criticism Persisch (DE-588)4065403-5 gnd Höfische Literatur (DE-588)4025340-5 gnd
subject_GND	(DE-588)4065403-5 (DE-588)4025340-5 (DE-588)4074930-7
title	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court
title_auth	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court
title_exact_search	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court
title_full	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court Sunil Sharma
title_fullStr	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court Sunil Sharma
title_full_unstemmed	Mughal Arcadia Persian literature in an Indian court Sunil Sharma
title_short	Mughal Arcadia
title_sort	mughal arcadia persian literature in an indian court
title_sub	Persian literature in an Indian court
topic	Indo-Iranian literature History and criticism Persisch (DE-588)4065403-5 gnd Höfische Literatur (DE-588)4025340-5 gnd
topic_facet	Indo-Iranian literature History and criticism Persisch Höfische Literatur Mogul Empire Court and courtiers History Mogul Empire Civilization Mogul Empire Intellectual life Mogulreich
url	http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030025314&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
work_keys_str_mv	AT sharmasunil mughalarcadiapersianliteratureinanindiancourt

Verfügbarkeit

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Inhaltsverzeichnis

MARC

Datensatz im Suchindex

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Ähnliche Einträge