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Writing the Mughal world : studies on culture and politics /

Two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an important introductory reflection. Stretching from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, this Indo-Islamic dynasty came to rule as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Alam, Muzaffar, 1947- (Autor), Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Old and the New in Mughal Historiography
  • 1. Letters from a Sinking Sultan
  • 2. The Mughals Look Beyond the Winds
  • 3. On the End of the Akbari Dispensation
  • 4. The Deccan Frontier and Mughal Expansion, Circa 1600
  • 5. Faizi's Nal-Daman and Its Long Afterlife
  • 6. Catholics and Muslims in the Court of Jahangir 249 (1608-1611)
  • 7. The Making of a Munshī
  • 8 .Trade and Politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700-1732)
  • 9. Eighteenth-Century Historiography and the World of the Mughal Munshī
  • 10. The Political Thought of a Late-Eighteenth-Century Mughal Prince
  • Epilogue: Mughals in Exile
  • Index.