By the end of the eighteenth century, emerging states in South Asia drew on successive waves of migration to staff their institutions. Scholars, poets and bureaucrats in these new states were entrusted with the crafting and maintenance of new bureaucratic systems and cultural spaces. The attempts to create shared bonds in these new spaces, however, also created tensions between those who were recent arrivals in these communities and those whose families had settled there earlier. In the fiercely competitive world of late Mughal literary culture, the task of uniting these groups by creating new networks was complicated by divergent goals. I examine how the writing and dissemination of new histories, memoirs and literary works with a literary network connected with one author, Lachmī Narāyan ‘Shafīq,’ built a shared history in the eighteenth-century Deccan, but also created moments of acute conflict and dissent through its literary production. The competing needs for individual self-presentation and success in the competitive climate of the period undercut the desire to forge collaborative networks. The conflicting record of these collaborations and fault lines in the archival records of this period invite us to revisit the ways in which both collective and individual identities were forged in this period.

到18世纪末，南亚新兴国家不断涌入移民潮，为其机构配备人员。这些新州的学者，诗人和官僚被委托来制定和维护新的官僚制度和文化空间。然而，试图在这些新空间中建立共同纽带的尝试，也使最近来到这些社区的人和那些较早定居在那里的人之间产生了紧张关系。在莫卧尔后期文学文化的激烈竞争的世界中，目标各不相同，通过创建新的网络来团结这些群体的任务变得复杂。我考察了如何通过与一位作家LachmīNarāyan'Shafīq，的联系建立的文学网络来撰写和传播新的历史，回忆录和文学作品。”在18世纪的德坎建立了共同的历史，但也通过其文学创作而造成了激烈的冲突和异议的时刻。在此期间的竞争环境中，个人自我陈述和成功的竞争需求削弱了建立协作网络的愿望。这些合作和断层线在这一时期的档案记录中相互矛盾的记录，使我们重新审视了在这一时期伪造集体和个人身份的方式。