The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
This talk will take a close look at a multi-generational legal dispute within a Mughal zamindari family that raged from the late seventeenth into the early eighteenth century. As regimes fell and rose, members of this landed family fumed at each other, and tried to use legal courts as well as other paraphernalia of the state to say who they were, and what was due to them, but not others.