Visions of Juliana: A Portuguese Woman at the Court of the Mughals

Zaman, Taymiya R.

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“…2, No. 2 -Festskrift til Tore Linné Eriksen -2015 Side 11/21 Juliana Dias da Costas liv till en livsberättelse som inte bara rör henne själv utan även jesuitmissionens uppgång och fall i Indien (Zaman, 2012).…”

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Har världshistorien ett kön? Familj och släkt i världspolitikens mitt

Sjöberg¹

2015

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In recent decades, gender perspectives have been adopted and elaborated in almost all research areas of history, apart from world history. A review of articles published in the Journal of World History during 2001–13 demonstrates a general pattern of gender blindness in the journal, with a few important exceptions. Several explanations for why world history neglects gender history are examined in this article. First, it has been claimed that world history has a strong materialist tradition, while gender historians work mostly with cultural perspectives. However, the articles in the Journal of World History show that world history is not unfamiliar with cultural issues or methodologies. Secondly, gender historians emphasize the complexity of gender relations, which do not accord well with prevailing explanations within world history that stress macro theories and general patterns. Thirdly, gender historians concentrate their research on women in their own countries, and this is of minor interest to scholars of world history. Fourthly, the absence of women and gender relations in writing and teaching on world history reflects the fact that almost every society in world history has had a gender order that discriminates against women in favour of men. What is lacking is a consciousness of this order. This opinion is easy to agree with, but it does not suggest ways of improving the gender consciousness of world historians. Fifthly, one opinion stresses that most women in history have lived their lives in families, while families do not play an important role in world history. This opinion relies on a view of gender history as exclusively women’s history. In order to emphasize and clarify gender as a structuring principle at the general level of societies, this article ends with an overview of a similarity of significance in almost all early modern political regencies. Dynastic thinking was established all over the world, from principalities to empires, and was everywhere constructed in terms of imagined family and kinship relations with superior masculinity and subordinated femininity. How can research in world history overlook this world-wide structure?

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“…For example, one may take the cases of a Russian slave family in service of Hamida Banu Begum, the mother of the celebrated Mughal emperor Akbar (reigned 1556-1605), who had incidentally manumitted all his palace slaves, 31 or a Portuguese woman Juliana Dias da Costa (d.1734), who became extremely influential at the Mughal court as a woman doctor and governess of children. 32 Noteworthy were East Africans, traditionally known in India as, notwithstanding their origin, 'Ethiopians' (Habshī) or Siddis (siddī). 33 Those slaves, imported into India throughout the whole of medieval and post-medieval periods, were employed as warriors (some succeeded in making an illustrious career, like Jamal ud-din Yāqut, the favourite of the celebrated Razia Sultan, Malik 'Aṁbar the general and Prime Minister of the Ahmadnagar state or the famous rulers of Janjira).…”

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Servitude in a Princely Establishment: Bhopal, Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century

Vanina

2024

Studies in People's History

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Bhopal, one of the ‘princely states’ and vassals of the British Empire, enjoyed special favour with its sovereign. Throughout a century, it was ruled by women who gained themselves, in India and outside, the glory of enlightened and progressive monarchs. Archival documents and memoirs allow glancing at the hitherto hidden world of domestic servants, who not only ensured the comfortable and luxurious life of the princely family, but also its high status and prestige. Among the numerous servants employed by the Bhopal rulers, freely hired local residents prevailed. However, the natives of some other countries, quite far from India, were present as well. Some of them came to Bhopal by force: The reputation of ‘progressive’ was no obstacle for the Bhopal queens for using slave labour, getting in response mild admonition from their British superiors.

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The Diplomatic Repertoires of the East India Companies in Mughal South Asia, 1608–1717

Meersbergen

2019

Hist. J.

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This article presents the first survey of the full range of diplomatic interactions between the Mughal Empire and the English and Dutch East India Companies (EIC and VOC) in the period 1608–1717. It proposes a typology of the six different modes of diplomacy practised by the EIC and VOC as a means to understand better the distinct nature of corporate diplomacy. Moving its focus beyond exceptional embassies, this article demonstrates that by far the most common forms of Company diplomatic activity consisted of low-profile petitioning at the imperial centre and ongoing political interactions with provincial and local power-holders. It draws on c. fifty distinct episodes to chart how Dutch and English diplomatic repertoires in South Asia took shape in response to local demands and conventions. Both Companies petitioned Mughal emperors in much the same way as Indian subjects did, and both relied on Mughal patrons to do so. Cast in the role of supplicants seeking imperial favour and protection, Company envoys presented themselves as obliging participants in the ceremonial performance of an asymmetrical relationship. By tying commercial privileges to expectations of submission and service, the imperial government proceeded to incorporate these foreign actors into a domestic political framework.

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Visions of Juliana: A Portuguese Woman at the Court of the Mughals

Cited by 5 publications

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Har världshistorien ett kön? Familj och släkt i världspolitikens mitt

Har världshistorien ett kön? Familj och släkt i världspolitikens mitt

Servitude in a Princely Establishment: Bhopal, Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century

The Diplomatic Repertoires of the East India Companies in Mughal South Asia, 1608–1717

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