Consider the following statements about 'Negotiating Mughal Law' by Nandini Chatterjee:
1) The book explores legal pluralism and property rights through a landlord family's experience across Indian empires.
2) It is a literary biography focusing on Mughal emperors' personal lives and poetic patronage.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Only statement 1 is correct.
Nandini Chatterjee’s 'Negotiating Mughal Law' is a legal history that examines how ordinary people interacted with the law. Statement 1 is correct because the book uses a vast collection of Persian and bilingual documents from a landlord (Zamindar) family to explore legal pluralism and property rights across the Mughal, Maratha, and British empires. Statement 2 is incorrect as the work is not a literary biography of emperors, but rather a study of how sub-state actors utilized legal systems to protect their interests.