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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Alam, Muzaffar, 1947- (Author), Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Politics and culture > Mogul Empire > History.
Politique et culture > Empire moghol > Histoire.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Commerce
Historiography
Politics and government
Politics and culture
Kultur
Politik
Geschichtsschreibung
Kultur.
Politik.
Geschichtsschreibung.
Mogul Empire > History.
Mogul Empire > Historiography.
Mogul Empire > Politics and government.
Mogul Empire > Commerce > History.
Empire moghol > Histoire.
Empire moghol > Historiographie.
Empire moghol > Commerce > Histoire.
India > Mogul Empire
Mogulreich
Indien
Indien.
Mogulreich.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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