Making Modern Mughals: Gendered Labour, Colonial Governance and the Household in Colonial India.
British officials in India disparaged the Mughal zanana to construct a linear argument on progress from a decadent Mughal past to the modern colonial period. This discourse was accompanied by the systematic marginalisation of Mughals under British rule, especially after the Rebellion of 1857. This a...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 183 - 200 |
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