Critiquing the commodity-centered frames of reference, this paper looks at property not within an economic logic, but as a set of practices that served to structure and reconfigure social relations. Based on a study of property documents and court papers, the essay argues that property was not simply an index of wealth, but a medium through which social relations were affirmed, reproduced and contested. Owing to the identification of property with the honor of families and caste groups, transactions in property were socially regulated activities that bore the imprint of local power relations. Property documents were imbued with a plethora of meanings, and this was because the scribal-literate tradition in Mughal India co-existed with an oral-performative culture. Writing was used by social actors in a wide variety of ways, and for different sets of objectives, sometimes to reinforce the social order, on other occasions to disrupt it.

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印度莫卧儿邦的财产和社会关系：17世纪至18世纪城市地区卡兹法院的诉讼和争议

批判以商品为中心的参考框架，本文不将财产视为一种经济逻辑，而是将其视为一组用于构建和重新配置社会关系的实践。基于对财产文件和法院文件的研究，本文认为财产不仅是财富的指标，而且是确认，复制和争论社会关系的媒介。由于以家庭和种姓团体的荣誉来识别财产，财产交易是受到社会管制的活动，具有地方权力关系的烙印。财产文件中充满了多种含义，这是因为印度莫卧儿文艺复兴时期的传统与口头表演文化并存。社会参与者以多种方式使用写作，