The making of the imperial subjects is as much a matter of historical process as the emergence of the empire. In the case of the Mughal state, this process started much before its actual establishment in the sixteenth century. The fifteenth century in North India was a period of unusual cultural ferment. The emergence of the Mughal imperial formation in the next century was intimately related to the fast congealing tendency of the north Indian society towards greater disciplining of itself. This tendency is evident in the multilingual literary cultures and diverse knowledge formations of the long fifteenth century.

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“同意”的文学管道

帝国臣民的形成与帝国的出现一样，都是一个历史过程。就莫卧儿国家而言，这个过程早在 16 世纪真正建立之前就开始了。北印度的 15 世纪是一个不同寻常的文化发酵时期。下个世纪莫卧儿帝国的出现与北印度社会对自身更加严格的快速凝结趋势密切相关。这种趋势在漫长的 15 世纪的多语言文学文化和多样化的知识形成中很明显。