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Informationen zum Autor Ruby Lal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on issues of gender relations in Islamic societies in the pre-colonial world. Klappentext Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional! orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation! she reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs. Combining Ottoman and Safavid histories! she demonstrates the richness as well as ambiguity of the Mughal haram! which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalization and imperial excellence. Zusammenfassung In this 2005 book! Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional interpretations of the haram! she reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and political affairs in the 'inner' chambers and the 'outer' courts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A genealogy of the Mughal haram; 3. The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir; 4. The making of Mughal court society; 5. Where was the haram in a peripatetic world?; 6. Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar; 7. Settled, sacred, and 'incarcerated': the imperial haram; 8. Conclusion.
