Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia: Amber (Rajasthan), ca. 1560-1615
Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia: Amber (Rajasthan), ca. 1560-1615
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重新思考南亚的王权和权威：琥珀（拉贾斯坦邦），约。
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2014
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Ramya Sreenivasan
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Ramya Sreenivasan
关于南亚王权的文献通常探索表达王权的习语--国王对其统治权的断言，同时假定国王的臣民、臣民、贵族和领主对这种王室权威的断言已经表示同意。本文通过对莫卧儿帝国著名地区首领满辛格·卡赫瓦哈宣称王室地位的方式的考察，重新审视了南亚王权的性质和局限性。我考察了目标受众--包括文人、贵族、竞争对手和莫卧儿霸主--可能在16世纪末和17世纪初接受了一位雄心勃勃的酋长对国王地位的声称。这篇文章重新解读了曼辛格统治时期的丰富证据，揭示了南亚王权的特征比人们通常认为的更具局限性和偶然性，并不断地接受挑战和争议。
The literature on South Asian kingship has typically explored the idioms in which kingship—a king’s assertion of his right to rule—was articulated, while assuming ready consent to such assertions of royal authority among a king’s subjects, vassals, peers, and overlords. This paper re-examines the nature and limits of South Asian kingship by investigating the modes in which Man Singh Kachhwaha, a prominent regional chief in the Mughal Empire, claimed royal status. I examine how target audiences—consisting of literati, peers, rivals, and the Mughal overlord—may have received an ambitious chief’s claims to kingly status in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This essay reinterprets the abundant evidence from Man Singh’s reign to reveal the character of kingship in South Asia as much more circumscribed and contingent than has often been assumed, and as continually open to challenge and contestation.