The book presents a detailed analysis of milk kinship in the Mughal era to bring out the socio-political and cultural significance of wet nursing. Pointing out that Islamic tradition gives attention to creation of milk kinship through wet nursing, it describes how a child nursed by a woman becomes a milk sibling to others who share her breast. Dealing with breastfeeding beliefs and practices of the time and selection of wet nurses, it explains how ...
Jagirdars in the Mughal Empire: During the Reign of Akbar
Jagirdars in the Mughal Empire During the Reign of Akbar knits together several things--the process of the Mughal Empire's expansion, Akbar's political and administrative initiatives, and the rituals of the court--that can be reconstituted for a new and different understanding of the Mughal state at the end of the sixteenth century. The author uses a multidimensional approach to the subject and offers a radically new way of looking at the organization of the ...
