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creators_name: Juneja, Monica
title: Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
subjects: ddc-390
divisions: i-728300
keywords: Painting, North India, Corporeality, Body Politic, Visuality
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively
abstract: 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.
date: 2009
publisher: de Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032759
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1524/para.2009.0015
ppn_swb: 1832125467
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-327599
language: eng
bibsort: JUNEJAMONITRANSLATIN2009
full_text_status: public
publication: Paragrana
volume: 18
number: 1
place_of_pub: Berlin
pagerange: 243-266
issn: 0938-0116 (Druck-Ausg.)<; 2196-6885 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   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.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32759/1/10.1524_para.2009.0015.pdf