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094013
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2010.
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The death at the hands of British troops of Tipu Sultan Fath 'Ali Khan (r. 1782-1799), the Muslim ruler of the predominantly-Hindu south Indian kingdom of Mysore, led to the discovery of an intriguing manuscript. Amongst the large amount of 'prize' or loot removed by the victors from Tipu's palace at Srirangapattana was a small 'diary', primarily containing a record of thirty-seven of the late ruler's dreams.1 Covering the period April 1786 to January 1799, and written in Persian in his own hand, this manuscript is probably the most personal document associated with Tipu Sultan that remains extant. William Kirkpatrick, the British officer who found the register and who was a Persian linguist, described how it had been located 'in an escritoire among several papers of a secret nature', noting in a letter to the governor-general, Lord Mornington, that the Mysore ruler had 'always [manifested] peculiar anxiety to conceal it from the view of those who happened to approach him while he was either reading or writing in it'.
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077043
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100207
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098990
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2010.
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The unification of a strong and authoritarian state with religious laws and institutions after the 1979 revolution in Iran has resulted in the creation of a dualistic state structure in which non-elected and non-accountable state authorities and institutions-the majority of whom have not accepted either the primacy of democracy nor the premise of equality between men and women (or Muslims and non-Muslims)-are able to oversee the elected authorities and institutions. The central question posed by this paper is whether a religious state would be capable of democratising society and delivering gender equality. By analysing the regime's gender policies and political development, the paper suggests that, at least in the case of Iran and Shi'ism, the larger obstacle to gender (and minorities') equality has more to do with the undemocratic state-society relations that persist in Iran and less to do with the actual or potential compatibility (or lack thereof) of religious traditions or practices with democratic principles.
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