01404nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002300041245010500064260005200169300003600221520098500257773005201242240207b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aKaicker, Abhishek   aFarhat Hasan, paper, performance, and the state: Social change and political culture in Mughal India  aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review    a60(4), Oct-Dec, 2023: p.479-480  aFarhat Hasan, Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, xv+155 pp.
Perhaps still smarting from Hegel’s dismissal of ‘Hindoo political existence’ as obtaining ‘purely a people, but no state’, for historians of India it has until recently remained a sine qua non to demonstrate the solidity and firmness of the state before colonial rule. The anxieties of post-independence historians about the viability of the national project (to which we might add the fact of their elitism), points out Hasan in the conclusion of the work under review, have led them to focus exclusively on histories which privilege the Mughal state to the exclusion of the society it ruled. Rethinking the nature and place of the state and the arena of its relations with the social world is the object to which this book aspires.- Reproduced 
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