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Author: Muzaffar Alam
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2000-02-17
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780195652253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mughal state, has, ever since its existence, exercised a compelling effect on observers. Debates have rage concerning its character and on the nature of the Mughal state. This book brings together some of the key interventions in these debates.
Author: Muzaffar Alam
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 0231158114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government that facilitated an era of profound artistic and architectural achievement. They promoted the place of Persian culture in Indian society and set the groundwork for South Asia's future development. In this volume, two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an essential introductory reflection. Making creative use of materials written in Persian, Indian vernacular languages, and a variety of European languages, their chapters accomplish the most significant innovations in Mughal historiography in decades, intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam center on confrontations between different source materials that they then reconcile, enabling readers to participate in both the debate and resolution of competing claims. Their introduction discusses the comparative and historiographical approach of their work and its place within the literature on Mughal rule. Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this volume richly expands research on the Mughal state, early modern South Asia, and the comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other early modern empires.
Author: Michael H. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107111625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Author: John F. Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521251198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.
Author: Farhat Hasan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780521841191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an exploratory study of the Mughal state and its negotiation with local power relations. By studying the state from the perspective of the localities and not from that of the Mughal Court, it shifts the focus from the imperial grid to the local arenas, and more significantly, from 'form' to 'process'. As a result, the book offers a new interpretation of the system of rule based on an appreciation of the local experience of imperial sovereignty, and the inter-connections between the state and the local power relations. The book knits together the systems- and action-theoretic approaches to power, and presents the Mughal state as a dynamic structure in constant change and conflict. The study, based on hitherto unexamined local evidence, highlights the extent to which the interactions between state and society helped to shape the rule structure, the normative system and 'the moral economy of the state'.
Author: Latika Chaudhary
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317674332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New Economic History of Colonial India provides a new perspective on Indian economic history. Using economic theory and quantitative methods, it shows how the discipline is being redefined and how new scholarship on India is beginning to embrace and make use of concepts from the larger field of global economic history and economics. The book discusses the impact of property rights, the standard of living, the labour market and the aftermath of the Partition. It also addresses how education and work changed, and provides a rethinking of traditional topics including de-industrialization, industrialization, railways, balance of payments, and the East India Company. Written in an accessible way, the contributors – all leading experts in their fields – firmly place Indian history in the context of world history. An up-to-date critical survey and novel resource on Indian Economic History, this book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Economic History, Indian and South Asian Studies, Economics and Comparative and Global History.
Author: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"S. Nurul Hasan played an important role in giving a new direction to history writing in India immediately before and after independence. This book brings together essays spanning a distinguished, often pioneering, career of a leading academician. Reflecting the evolution of his ideas on medieval Indian history, they demonstrate the diversity and versatility of Hasan's works and his multi-disciplinary approach to the study of history." "Scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval Indian history, sociology, and politics as well as general readers will find this book an important resource."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-08-17
Total Pages: 819
ISBN-13: 1408806886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
Author: Jos J. L. Gommans
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0415239893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.
Author: J. S. Grewal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is also a truly pan-Indian volume on medieval Indian history as it looks at state forms and social organizations among the Cholas, the Delhi Sultante, the Sultante of Bengal, Himachal, Kumaon and Garhwal, medieval Rajasthanm the Vijayanagar State, Kerala, the Mughal Empire, Marahastra, and the Punjab. The contributors include eminent medievalist
