Science at the court of the cosmocrat

Mughal India, 1531–56

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8961975
AutoresAli Anooshahr (0000-0002-2145-5202, University of California, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas295-316
Fecha de publicación2017-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0019464617710742
OpenAlexW2746175600
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas14

The present article studies a number of texts produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in order to argue that there was a rise in prestige for various fields of knowledge such as mathematics, geography and astronomy. While these texts certainly fulfilled a political function (elucidating the cosmos for Mughal universalist claims), they also reflected aspects of the intellectual climate and practices of the sixteenth century that were undergoing a realignment with the expansion of royal authority throughout much of the globe

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