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Author: Satish Chandra
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period in Indian history after the death of Aurangzeb in 1707 has been characterized as one of anarchy and decline. In this book, the author brings out some broad forms of development and conflict within the Mughal empire as well as with the Marathas.
Author: Satish Chandra
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lisa Balabanlilar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-12-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0857732463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.
Author: Sudev Sheth
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Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1009330241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the 1660s, the mighty Mughal Empire controlled the Indian subcontinent and impressed the world with its strength and opulence. Yet hardly two decades would pass before fortunes would turn, Mughal kings and governors losing influence to rival warlords and foreign powers. How could leaders of one of the most dominant early modern polities lose their grip over empire? Sudev Sheth proposes a new point of departure, focusing on diverse local and hitherto unexplored evidence about a prominent financier family entrenched in bankrolling Mughal elites and their successors. Analyzing how four generations of the Jhaveri family of Gujarat financed politics, he offers a fresh take on the dissolution of the Mughal empire, the birth of princely successor states, and the nature of economic life in the days leading up to the colonial domination of India.
Author: J. S. Grewal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-10-08
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521637640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak, the development of his ideas by his successors and the growth of his following. The book offers a comprehensive statement on one of the largest and most important communities in India today.
Author: Muzaffar Alam
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-08-09
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0231158106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, the authors present essays on the Mughal Empire by intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought.
Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788178240275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pratyay Nath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0199098239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
Author: M. Reza Pirbhai
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-09-30
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9047431022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite 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.
Author: Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991-10-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780520067257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.
