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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    28 November 2024
    23 January 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009509527
    9781009509510
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009509527
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 308 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Cross-Discipline History: General Interest, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    Leaving Legacies is a fresh account of the individual in early modern South Asia. A gendered practice carried out by men, leaving legacies involved assembling three kinds of material traces: monuments, books, and sons. Men laid claim to individual distinction within an ethics of remembering worthy individuals by joining their traces with those of men past and reworking older legacies. Their legacies joined their present to the past and future, while also drawing women and non-elite men into a hierarchical order centered upon the individual during Mughal rule and after. This book shows that a concern for the individual self was not an exclusively western phenomenon. Rather, the practice of leaving individual legacies was a crucial means for the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order in South Asia.

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