The Horse:

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" The Horse: "
Monica Meadows P. W. J. Dhavan

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1103805
Doc. No	:	TLpq1497032885
Main Entry	:	Monica Meadows
	:	P. W. J. Dhavan
Title & Author	:	The Horse:\ Monica MeadowsP. W. J. Dhavan
College	:	University of Washington
Date	:	2013
student score	:	2013
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	179
Abstract	:	In this dissertation, I analyze the role the horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (farasnama ) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. My analysis of the farasnama ties in directly with the new analyses of the Mughal Empire as a dynamic imperial formation fueled by the upward mobility of peasant and pastoral groups working together with elite groups in Indian society who had command over complex economic and bureaucratic systems. The horse trade moved through these systems, supporting and extending the cultural norms on which these relationships were based. Even without crunching the numbers of the astonishing economic and political scale of this trade, one begins to get a sense of how truly extensive the cultural systems were that supported it, and how critical these same cultural systems were to maintaining the political power of the warrior elite.
Subject	:	Horse treatise
	:	Horses
	:	Mughals
	:	Social sciences
	:	South Asian history
	:	Trade