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...

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Published in:	Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 183 - 200
Main Author:	Narayan, Rochisha
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2025
Subjects:	British occupation of India, 1765-1947 Mughal Empire Social marginality Teleology Women Households Cultural identity
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost