title: Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
creator: Juneja, Monica
subject: ddc-390
subject: 390 Customs, etiquette, folklore
description: This 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.
publisher: de Gruyter
date: 2009
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32759/1/10.1524_para.2009.0015.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032759
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1524/para.2009.0015
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-327599
identifier:   Juneja, Monica  (2009) Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.  Paragrana, 18 (1).  pp. 243-266.  ISSN 0938-0116 (Druck-Ausg.)<; 2196-6885 (Online-Ausg.)     
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rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng