 | CIGH Exeter Nov 29 |  Professor Nandini Chatterjee (University of Exeter) works on law and cultural exchanges in the British and Mughal empires - with particular attention to religion and family. Her first book was on the shaping on the minority religious community of Indian Christians, through legal, political, racial and theological contests over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her second book is a rare micro-history of a family of zamindars (landlords) and their negotiation of the laws of the Mughal empire.She has since taken these interestes further back in time, into the early modern Islamic and Persian-writing world. From 2017-2022, she directed an international and collaborative five-year ERC-funded project on Persian and bi-lingual legal documents from India, Iran and the northern Indian Ocean. The project is called Forms of Law in the early modern Persianate World, 17th-19th centuries. As part of this project, she and her colleagues have created Lawforms, a free online repository of legal documents from India and the Indian Ocean, written in Persian and various Indian languages. She is also an editor of the English Historical Review.
On Wed. 1 November 2023 Prof. Chatterjee delivered her inaugural lecture, "Demanding subjects: women in the Mughal courtrooms of early modern South Asia," which you can now watch here. | | | |
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