Religious Diversity and Imperial Rule Across Indo-Persian Empires

Sadia Saeed, University of San Francisco

This paper undertakes a comparison of three successive empires that have ruled over parts of Indo-Persia: the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, and the British Empire. Cutting across the temporal divide marked by “modernity” as well as the spatial divide defined by “Western” and “non-Western” empires, my analysis suggests connections and contrasts with respect to how religious diversity of the Indo-Persian landscape informed three distinct imperial projects of disciplining and governing imperial subjects.

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 Presented in Session 224. Liberalism and Tolerance in a Comparative and Historical Perspective