The Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire

Author: John F. Richards

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521566032

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This traces the history of the Mughal empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. It stresses the quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their innovation in land revenue, military organization, and the relationship between the emperors and I

Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870
Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870

Author: Kaushik Roy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1317587103

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This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history.

Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context

Author: M. Reza Pirbhai

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9004177582

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Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically legalistic and Muslims as uniformly transgressive when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history, and an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.