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2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243
Author(s):  
Paul A. Fideler
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Stuart England

Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Paragrana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
Monica Juneja
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
North India ◽  
The Political ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Regimes ◽  
New Ideas

AbstractThis article investigates the ways in which visual representations reconfigured the body in North Indian political culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While images were meant to transmit and translate ethical conceptions of the polity, communicative modes of the visual medium followed a dynamic that was not a rehearsal of the path taken by texts. As images cut across distinctions formulated elsewhere and drew up new boundaries, they worked to refine and pluralise the understandings of political culture beyond the normative. Pictorial experiments at the North Indian courts involved negotiating multiple regimes of visuality and arriving at pictorial choices that ended up creating a new field of sensibilities, especially the corporeal. An argument is therefore made for the agency of the visual in defining new ideas of the political body that were constitutive of politico-ethical ideals in early modern North India.

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