2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A preliminary survey for prosopography of mansabdars of the Mughal Empire
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26370823
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Asia and Africa
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | ムガル帝国 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The system of the mansab (i.e. rank) constitutes the core of the administration of the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) with multifaceted aspects of both a salary system and an aristocratic order as well as a military organization. This research project has intended to collect and analyze prosopographical data of the mansabdars (the mansab holders) of the empire by a comprehensive survey of various sources, aiming to establish a basis of a database of the Mughal mansabdars. Through this project, many of the primary sources for establishing the database have been acquired. Building and analyzing a tentative database has illuminated some of the ever-neglected aspects of the Mughal Empire such as its imperial foster-kinship, its imperial ritual of giving and its nobility in the context of its literary milieu, which have ever been neglected and need to be further studied.
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| Free Research Field |
南アジア史
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