History Of The Rise Of The Mahomedan Power In India: Till The Year A.D. 1612, 4 Vols
History Of The Rise Of The Mahomedan Power In India: Till The Year A.D. 1612, 4 Vols

Author: Mahomed Kasim Ferishta

Publisher:

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 1567

ISBN-13: 9788170691228

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Description: Mahomed Kasim Shah Ferishta, a Persian historian was born at Astrabad on the borders of Caspian Sea in 1570 AD. He came to Bijapur in 1589 and spent remainder of his life under the immediate protection of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, who commissioned him to write the general history of the Mahomedans in India. Ferishta presented the first draft of his history to Ibrahim Adil Shah in 1606 AD and spent the rest of his life in revising it. In the introduction of his work he gave a summary of the Mahomedan Conquest, and also of the Arab conquest of the Indian Borderlands, Ferishta is reputed as one of the most trustworthy of oriental historians. His work has come to be regarded as a classic and still maintains a high place as an authority. The author, Ferishta is more divested to the feel of massacres of the defenceless Hindus than any other author of his own religious creed. Ferishta has brought more brightness to the general history of the Mahomedans in India. The date of his death is altogether unknown. Briggs supposes that it occurred in 1612 AD making him only forty one years of age.

A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761

Author: Richard M. Eaton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521254847

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In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight Indians who lived at different times during this period, and who each represented something particular about the Deccan. In the first chapter, for example, the author describes the demise of the regional kingdom through the life of a maharaja. In the second, a Sufi sheikh illustrates Muslim piety and state authority. Other characters include a merchant, a general, a slave, a poet, a bandit and a female pawnbroker. Their stories are woven together into a rich narrative tapestry, which illumines the most important social processes of the Deccan across four centuries. This is a much-needed book by the most highly regarded scholar in the field.

Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE
Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE

Author: Kaushik Roy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1317586913

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This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.

Kingship and Colonialism in India’s Deccan 1850–1948
Kingship and Colonialism in India’s Deccan 1850–1948

Author: B. Cohen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-01-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230603440

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Rejecting simplified notions of 'civilizational clashes', this book argues for a new perspective on Hindu, Muslim, and colonial power relations in India. Using archival sources from London, Delhi, and Hyderabad, the book makes use of interviews, private family records and princely-colonial records uncovered outside of the archival repositories.