Corinne LEFÈVRE
Biography:
Corinne Lefèvre received her Ph.D. (2005) in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. She taught at the INALCO University (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) before becoming a CNRS Research Fellow and a member of the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH, formerly known as the CEIAS) in 2006.
Through her research, she revisits the political and socio-cultural history of the Mughal empire by considering it within the broader context of precolonial Muslim Asia (from Istanbul to Aceh, via the Deccan sultanates). In order to do so, she draws on a wide array of sources (Indo-Persian narrative literature, paintings, monuments, inscriptions, coins).
Lately, Corinne has shifted her attention to issues of art and material culture: she has recently completed an edited volume on Mughal arts, and published chapters on the Mughals’ relationship with the material cultures of ancient times.
Upon joining the CSH, she has been working on the history of the city of Delhi from the late 12th to the late 19th century.
Publications:
- Lefèvre, Corinne (ed. with Jean-Baptiste Clais). 2024. Les arts moghols. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod.
- Lefèvre, Corinne. 2022. Consolidating Empire. Power and elites in Jahāngīr’s India (1605-1627). Ranikhet: Permanent Black.
- Lefèvre, Corinne. 2022. “Les horizons antiquaires des Moghols entre Orient et Occident (du seizième au dix-huitième siècle): quelques réflexions ». In Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme (ed.), Les Antiquités dépaysées. Histoire globale de la culture matérielle antique au siècle des Lumières. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 21-51.
- Lefèvre, Corinne. 2017. “Messianism, rationalism and inter-Asian connections: the Majalis-i Jahangiri (1608-11) and the socio-intellectual history of the Mughal ʿulama.” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 54/3, p. 317-338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0019464617710744
- Lefèvre, Corinne, Ines G. Županov and Jorge Flores (ed.). 2015. Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud. Sources, itinéraires, langues (xvie-xviiie siècles). Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS. Available online: https://books.openedition.org/editionsehess/22987?lang=fr
