Science at the court of the cosmocrat: Mughal India, 1531–56

Ali Anooshahr
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Ali Anooshahr: University of California

The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2017, vol. 54, issue 3, 295-316

Abstract: The present article studies a number of texts produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in order to argue that there was a rise in prestige for various fields of knowledge such as mathematics, geography and astronomy. While these texts certainly fulfilled a political function (elucidating the cosmos for Mughal universalist claims), they also reflected aspects of the intellectual climate and practices of the sixteenth century that were undergoing a realignment with the expansion of royal authority throughout much of the globe.

Keywords: Mughal India; history of science; mathematics; astronomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0019464617710742

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