memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia Balabanlilar, Lisa 1958- creator text bibliography enk London New York New York I.B. Tauris distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 2012 monographic eng

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xix, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. "Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition." -- Timurid political charisma and the ideology of rule -- Babur and the Timurid exile -- Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult -- The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape -- Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession -- Imagining Kingship. Lisa Balabanlilar. Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index. Timurids History Mogul Empire History India History 1526-1765 DS461 .B25 2012 954.025 BAL/I 9781848857261 (hbk.) 1848857268 (hbk.) 2011277054 UKMGB 120403 20230921162804.0 17240452 eng