Questions about “Mughal law” have haunted historians for generations. In her latest book, Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Nandini Chatterjee explores the textures, nuances, conflicts, and complications captured in the reconstructed archive of legal documents at the heart of this book. How did law operate outside the imperial capital? And how did it hold together families, property, and power?    

Dominic Vendell (History, Exeter University) and Samira Sheikh (History, Vanderbilt University) will join us for this conversation.

This book is freely available online via Cambridge Open.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College) will moderate.  

Register online to attend the conversation: https://dartgo.org/mughal-law

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsorship for the Conversations on South Asia series comes from the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows | Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund | Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program | Department of History.