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  • 4 - Transactions: Recording Deals

  • Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Negotiating Mughal Law
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 141-170
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    This chapter deals with documents recording a variety of inter-personal dealings that reveal that transactional ambit of the protagonists, including sale and purchase, loans, gifts, and payment of blood-money. Structured as recognizably pan-Islamic documentary forms and sealed by the Islamic judge (qazi), these documents offer an opportunity for learning further details about the social life of the protagonists, especially the women among them, and their relations with their social equals or subordinates. This leads to a discussion about the percolation of Islamic legal forms and procedures in this pre-dominantly non-Muslim context. The documents in the collection are connected to models provided by Persian-language formularies known as munshats, showing how standardization amd popularization of legal forms may have been achieved through such non-religious manuals that formed training materials for Indo-Persian scribes, or munshis.