Writing the Mughal world : studies on culture and politics / Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alam, Muzaffar, 1947-

Contributor:

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

History.

Mughal Empire--History.

Mughal Empire.

Mughal Empire--Historiography.

Politics and culture--Mogul Empire--History.

Mughal Empire--Politics and government.

Mughal Empire--Commerce--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 516 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Between 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 as low as the Kaveri basin basm in the south. The Mughal's committed 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 join essays on the Mughal Empire framed by an essential Introduction 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 interwining political cultural and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy state formation, history writing, religious debate and political thought.

Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmaniam highlight disputes between different source that they then reconcile, enabling reader to partcipate both the debate and resolution competing claims. Then introduction discusses the comparative and historiographical approach of then 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 comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman Safavid and other early modern empires Book jacket.

Contents:

Letters from a sinking sultan

TheMughals look beyond the winds

On the end of the Akbari dispensation

The Deccan frontier and Mughal expansion, c. 1600

Faizi's Nal-Daman and its long afterlife

Catholics and Muslims in the court of Jahangir (1608-1611)

The making of a Munshi

Trade and politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700-1732)

Eighteenth-century historiography and the world of the Mughal Munshi

The political thought of a late eighteenth-century Mughal prince.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231158114

9780231158107

0231158106

9780231527903

023152790X

OCLC:

693812378

Publisher Number:

99946495187