战争与非精英:走向莫卧儿帝国的人民历史

IF 0.3 2区 历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Pratyay Nath
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莫卧儿帝国的史学自成立以来经历了许多曲折。尽管在方法论和论点方面发生了重大变化,但某种精英主义已经成为这一文学体的特征。这表现在大多数历史学家倾向于主要从精英行动的角度来概念化帝国的职业生涯。这种精英主义使非精英群体对帝国建立的贡献变得相当模糊。为了解决这种不平衡的历史理解问题,本文以战争领域为例,提供了一部人民对帝国的历史。它探讨了两个非精英团体在莫卧儿军事战役中的作用。这些是普通的步兵和后勤人员。文章讨论了他们的战术重要性、社会基础、招聘模式、薪酬和组织。它认为,认识到这些群体对战争和领土扩张过程的贡献,有助于我们挑战莫卧儿帝国主要是精英企业的观点。它使我们能够看到莫卧儿国家形成和帝国建设的广泛性、包容性和协作性。
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War and the Non-Elite: Towards a People’s History of the Mughal Empire
The historiography of the Mughal Empire has gone through many twists and turns since its inception. Significant shifts in terms of methodologies and arguments notwithstanding, a certain elitism has characterised this body of literature. This is manifested by the tendency of most historians to conceptualise the career of the empire primarily in terms of elite action. This elitism has kept the contributions of non-elite groups to the making of the empire fairly obscured. Problematising this lopsided historical understanding, the present article offers a people’s history of the empire by focusing on the domain of war as a case study. It explores the role of two non-elite groups in Mughal military campaigns. These are the common infantry and the logistical workforce. The article discusses their tactical importance, social basis, modes of recruitment, pay, and organisation. It argues that taking cognizance of the contributions of these groups to the processes of war-making and territorial expansion helps us challenge the view of the Mughal Empire being primarily an elite enterprise. It enables us see the broad-based, inclusive, and collaborative nature of Mughal state-formation and empire-building.
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MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL
MEDIEVAL HISTORY JOURNAL MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: The Medieval History Journal is designed as a forum for expressing spatial and temporal flexibility in defining "medieval" and for capturing its expansive thematic domain. A refereed journal, The Medieval History Journal explores problematics relating to all aspects of societies in the medieval universe. Articles which are comparative and interdisciplinary and those with a broad canvas find particular favour with the journal. It seeks to transcend the narrow boundaries of a single discipline and encompasses the related fields of literature, art, archaeology, anthropology, sociology and human geography.
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