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東文研セミナー「Naveen Kanalu先生（フランス社会科学高等研究院）をお迎えして」Tobunken Seminar: Naveen Kanalu (EHESS)
開催趣旨Overview：東洋文化研究所は、フランス国立社会科学高等研究院（EHESS）との協定にもとづき、このたびNaveen Kanalu先生を招聘いたしました。この機会に、先生の研究についてご講演いただきます。参加ご希望の方は、下記のフォームに事前登録をお願いします。
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講演者Presenter：Naveen Kanalu フランス国立社会科学高等研究院 准教授
講演タイトル・日時Title & Dates：
第1回2025年4月17日（木）14時00分〜15時30分（日本時間）
題目Title "Hanafi Law and Urban Legal Governance in Mughal northern India (ca. 1650–1700)"
第2回2025年4月24日（木）14時00分〜15時30分（日本時間）
題目Title "The Information Economy of Fiscality and Agrarian Land Regimes in Mughal India (ca. 1680–90s)"
会場Venue：東京大学東洋文化研究所 大会議室（3F） ＊対面のみ
使用言語Language：英語 English
総合司会Facilitator：第1回 古井龍介（東洋文化研究所 教授）、第2回 小川道大（東洋文化研究所 准教授）
要旨Abstract：
第1回講演 This talk examines how Hanafi law, one of the four schools of Sunni Islam, shaped the Mughal urban legal landscape and governance in the northern Indian cities of Agra, Mathura, and Delhi on the Yamuna River plains during the second half of the seventeenth century. Analyzing the legal opinions of Hanafi jurists in Arabic alongside Mughal administrative documents in Persian, the talk explores the graded nature of urban land use policies within and outside the walled cities that created a mosaic of differential property rights for Mughal subjects. Equally, it unearths the role of Muslim judges, administrative personnel, and the police, who oversaw the protection of legal entitlements and resolved tensions between subjects belonging to diverse caste communities. The urban social landscape was also regulated to strike a balance between private interests and public welfare as well as the maintenance of law and order. Probing the interaction between state, communities, and individuals, I argue for a fresh assessment of Mughal imperial authority’s central role in enforcing Hanafi law in precolonial South Asian cities.
第2回講演 In the Mughal Empire (1526–1857), the agrarian land belonged to the public domain akin to the miri system practiced in the Ottoman Empire. Based on the post-classical Hanafi legal doctrine of state property, the lands were sequestered to the public treasury upon imperial military conquest and leased to agrarian communities for land rent. The talk not only reveals how Hanafi legal norms elaborated by Muslim learned scholars formed the basis for agrarian land relations but also for distinct forms of Mughal military prebendalization. Reconstructing the legal mechanisms through which peasants and village headmen entered into sharecropping and lease contracts with state agents in the 1680-90s, the talk interrogates the mediation mechanisms that existed between different hierarchies of the imperial, provincial, and local administrations. In the second half of the seventeenth century, the imperial court stationed in southern India managed the northern Indian affairs though an information economy of contracts, correspondence, and documents that facilitated communication across vast distances. This talk also analyzes how Mughal imperial administrators, elite military officers who received benefices, rural chieftains who remitted revenues, and state agents rendered possible fiscal mechanisms through layered forms of communication.
登録種別：研究会関連
登録日時：FriFeb2110:53:592025
登録者 ： Kanalu ・上田・多田
掲載期間：20250221 - 20250424
当日期間：20250417 - 20250424
