Life Stories in Mughal India

Situated at the intersections between history and literature, the book explores the life-stories written in the Mughal period to recover socio-cultural developments in the period. It focuses on the genre of life-stories and looks at the complex interactions between agency and the ruling structure in shaping historical formations. The biographical dictionaries explored in this book highlight the significance of the agency of political actors, and the strategies through which the aristocrats and t