Farhat Hasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farhat Hasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farhat |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasan |
| SIGNATURE | HASAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1099-4750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating Mughal Law
This is a lucidly written history of a petty landowning family in the district of Dhar in Malwa across four generations covering three political dispensations: the Mughals, the Marathas and the British. The story begins with Mohan Das grabbing the position of revenue record-keeper (qanungo) under the Mughals, a position that he apparently held along with, or because of, his superior interests in land; tracing the history of his family across gene…
Paper, Performance and the State
This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets …
Law as Contested Communication
The legal system in the Mughal period has largely been studied within an imperial, institutional frame of reference, and in most well-known works, the legal order is represented as part of the grand narrative of the unifying, centralizing thrust of Mughal empire.1 The dominant tendency is to identify the legal order with the state, and for most historians, it could not have been otherwise, given the centralized and bureaucratic structure of Mugha…
Property and Social Relations in Mughal India
Critiquing the commodity-centered frames of reference, this paper looks at property not within an economic logic, but as a set of practices that served to structure and reconfigure social relations. Based on a study of property documents and court papers, the essay argues that property was not simply an index of wealth, but a medium through which social relations were affirmed, reproduced and contested. Owing to the identification of property wit…
A Welcome Study
The Mughal Fiscal System in Surat and the English East India Company
In this paper an attempt is made to outline the basic structure of taxes on trade and commerce at the Mughal port of Surat during the seventeenth century. This is explored chiefly from documents relating to the English East India Company. By the very nature of the Company being a foreign corporate body, it did not represent a typical 'peddling' tax-payer. But the system in so far as the ordinary merchants were concerned, can be restored for us in…
Indigenous Cooperation and the Birth of a Colonial City
It is a truth that from the western extremity of California to the eastern coast of Japan, there is not a spot where judgement, taste, decency and convenience are so grossly insulted in that scattered and confused chaos of houses, huts, sheds, streets, lanes, alleys, windings, gullies, sinks and tanks which jumbled into an undistinguished mass of filth and corruption, equally offensive to human sense and health, compose the Capital of the English…
Conflict and Cooperation in Anglo-Mughal Trade Relations During the Reign of Aurangzeb
Since Stewart') and Jadunath Sarkar2), studies on the English East India Company's relations with the Mughals have, with varying degrees of emphasis and reservations, repeated the story narrated in the English sources3). The English settlements, it is said, were based on an agreement with the imperial court whereby they were assured of free movement of their merchandise, protection of their factories and trading operations and concessions in levi…
Indigenous Cooperation and the Birth of a Colonial City
It is a truth that from the western extremity of California to the eastern coast of Japan, there is not a spot where judgement, taste, decency and convenience are so grossly insulted in that scattered and confused chaos of houses, huts, sheds, streets, lanes, alleys, windings, gullies, sinks and tanks which jumbled into an undistinguished mass of filth and corruption, equally offensive to human sense and health, compose the Capital of the English…
Conflict and Cooperation in Anglo-Mughal Trade Relations During the Reign of Aurangzeb
Since Stewart') and Jadunath Sarkar2), studies on the English East India Company's relations with the Mughals have, with varying degrees of emphasis and reservations, repeated the story narrated in the English sources3). The English settlements, it is said, were based on an agreement with the imperial court whereby they were assured of free movement of their merchandise, protection of their factories and trading operations and concessions in levi…
The Mughal Fiscal System in Surat and the English East India Company
In this paper an attempt is made to outline the basic structure of taxes on trade and commerce at the Mughal port of Surat during the seventeenth century. This is explored chiefly from documents relating to the English East India Company. By the very nature of the Company being a foreign corporate body, it did not represent a typical 'peddling' tax-payer. But the system in so far as the ordinary merchants were concerned, can be restored for us in…
Paper, Performance and the State
This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets …
Property and Social Relations in Mughal India
Critiquing the commodity-centered frames of reference, this paper looks at property not within an economic logic, but as a set of practices that served to structure and reconfigure social relations. Based on a study of property documents and court papers, the essay argues that property was not simply an index of wealth, but a medium through which social relations were affirmed, reproduced and contested. Owing to the identification of property wit…
Conflict and Cooperation in Anglo-Mughal Trade Relations During the Reign of Aurangzeb
Since Stewart') and Jadunath Sarkar2), studies on the English East India Company's relations with the Mughals have, with varying degrees of emphasis and reservations, repeated the story narrated in the English sources3). The English settlements, it is said, were based on an agreement with the imperial court whereby they were assured of free movement of their merchandise, protection of their factories and trading operations and concessions in levi…
Indigenous Cooperation and the Birth of a Colonial City
It is a truth that from the western extremity of California to the eastern coast of Japan, there is not a spot where judgement, taste, decency and convenience are so grossly insulted in that scattered and confused chaos of houses, huts, sheds, streets, lanes, alleys, windings, gullies, sinks and tanks which jumbled into an undistinguished mass of filth and corruption, equally offensive to human sense and health, compose the Capital of the English…
The Mughal Fiscal System in Surat and the English East India Company
In this paper an attempt is made to outline the basic structure of taxes on trade and commerce at the Mughal port of Surat during the seventeenth century. This is explored chiefly from documents relating to the English East India Company. By the very nature of the Company being a foreign corporate body, it did not represent a typical 'peddling' tax-payer. But the system in so far as the ordinary merchants were concerned, can be restored for us in…
A Welcome Study
Property and Social Relations in Mughal India
Critiquing the commodity-centered frames of reference, this paper looks at property not within an economic logic, but as a set of practices that served to structure and reconfigure social relations. Based on a study of property documents and court papers, the essay argues that property was not simply an index of wealth, but a medium through which social relations were affirmed, reproduced and contested. Owing to the identification of property wit…
Law as Contested Communication
The legal system in the Mughal period has largely been studied within an imperial, institutional frame of reference, and in most well-known works, the legal order is represented as part of the grand narrative of the unifying, centralizing thrust of Mughal empire.1 The dominant tendency is to identify the legal order with the state, and for most historians, it could not have been otherwise, given the centralized and bureaucratic structure of Mugha…
Paper, Performance and the State
This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets …
Negotiating Mughal Law
This is a lucidly written history of a petty landowning family in the district of Dhar in Malwa across four generations covering three political dispensations: the Mughals, the Marathas and the British. The story begins with Mohan Das grabbing the position of revenue record-keeper (qanungo) under the Mughals, a position that he apparently held along with, or because of, his superior interests in land; tracing the history of his family across gene…
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