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Jadunath Sarkar (ed.)
A Short History of Aurangzib (Revised Edition)
Orient BlackSwan; New Delhi, India; 2009; 8125036903 / 9788125036906; First Edition; Paperback; New; 15 Cms x 23 Cms
This book is an abridged version of the unrivalled five-volume History of Aurangzib by Sir Jadunath Sarkar. It contains one half of the material of the original work. Yet, the author, who himself shortened it, has not compromised on the essential aspects of this history practically the history of India for sixty year. Aurangzib’s career prior to his accession has been skillfully compressed while significant events during his reign have been dealt with in detail. This concise edition, written in an inimitable style, will continue to be a valuable resource for students and scholars of medieval Indian history. Printed Pages: 424. 032981
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Barbara Schmitz (ed.)
After the Great Mughals: Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Vol. 53 No. 4)
Marg Publications; Mumbai, India; 2002; 8185026564 / 9788185026565; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 23 Cms x 29 Cms
After the Great Mughals Barbara Schmitz Mughal Painting during the Reign of Muhammad Shah Terence Mclnerney Towards a New Naturalism: Portraiture in Murshidabad and Avadh, 1750-80 J.P. Losty Important Illustrated Manuscripts in the National Museum, New Delhi Barbara Schmitz and Nasim Akhtar The Painter Imam Bakhsh of Lahore Jean-Marie Lafont and Barbara Schmitz Articulating a Life, in Words and Pictures: Begum Samru and The Ornament of Histories Aditya Behl In the Company Style: Documenting Crafts Practised in and around Bareilly in the 1820s Mehr Afshan Farooqi Later Indian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in Two New York Libraries Barbara Schmitz Late or Faux Mughal Painting: A Question of Intent Robert J. Del Bontà Index Printed Pages: 176 with numerous colour and b/w illustrations. 024287
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Irfan Habib
Akbar and His India
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 1997; 0195637917 / 9780195637915; Paperback; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
`Many fresh insights into Akbar and his world.. suggest that we may be close to the time when a major reassessment of this remarkable man can be achieved.' Francis Robinson, Royal Asiatic Society, Vol.9:3, November 1999 This volume focuses on Akbar, his empire and environment, to present a picture of the polity and culture of India 400-500 years ago. Printed Pages: 328 with halftones. 029110
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Rekha Joshi Nee Misra
Aurangzeb: Attitudes and Inclinations
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1979; 8121502314 / 9788121502313; First Edition; Cloth; New; New; 15 Cms x 23 Cms
Aurangzeb, the last of the Great Mughals, has always fascinated and provoked historians. Many of his actions can be understood by trying to understand his mental make-up as it evoked during his formative years and various influences to which he was exposed when he was still a Prince. An humble attempt has been made in this book to separate and understand various strands of his psyche by analysing the moulding factors in his life. Printed Pages: 54. 002495
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Tapan Raychaudhuri
Bengal Under Akbar and Jahangir: An Introductory Study in Social History
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1969; 8121503566 / 9788121503563; Second Impression; Hard Cover; New; New; 14 Cms x 23 Cms
Bengal Under Akbar and Jahangir based on a doctoral dissertation written twenty years ago, was first published in 1953 and has long been out of print. The text of the original edition, reproduced here without any changes, belongs to the early phase in the development of the new school of historical writing in India which broke away from the older preoccupation with the chronicling of surface events and attempts to explain and interrelate rather than merely describe what happened in the past. Concerned with a particular region during a significant period in its history, the present volume is an essay in identification of the characteristic features of a past society, of the mutual impact of activities in various fields and of the mechanism of such change as was possible under relatively static conditions. The composite picture of a society in action over a half century of slow change is built up from bits of information scattered through a wide range of source material,-Bengali literary works, Persian chronicles, account of European travellers, religious texts in Sanskrit and Bengali and Raghunandana's Smriti which guided the ritual and, in some respects, the secular conduct of the Bengali Hindu. Admittedly, it is an inadequate reconstruction, for many of the important pieces in the jigsaw puzzle are missing. As an exercise in understanding social and cultural phenomena in a by-gone age, the present volume is intuitive in its approach. A long introductory note appended to the new impression, based on the methods and findings of social anthropology, attempts to rectify the limitations of mere intuition. The data presented in the original work are reappraised unravel the social structure, the norms, the systems of values and beliefs, the political and economic organisation, the processes of transmission and transformation of tradition, selectively, some of the source material on which study was based, are scrutinised afresh, and they have yielded a wide range of significant information in response to the queries. Despite the limitations of data, the new introduction projects a coherent picture of social organization and its processes of change quite unlike the fragmentary silhouette derived from the intuitive approach. This exercise in applying the methods of social anthropology to medieval Indian history suggests the possibility of similar investigations in relation to other regions and other periods as steps towards a systematized statement of India's social evolution. Printed Pages: 278. 001083
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Muzaffar Alam
Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab 1707-48
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 0195630009 / 9780195630008; First Edition; Paperback; New; 14 x 22 Cm
The period following the death of Aurangzeb has usually been viewed from the perspective of the decline and subsequent decay of the Mughal empire. This study emphasizes that the period 1707-1748 saw the emergence of a new order with local and regional idioms, even though echoes from the imperial period continued to be heard. Printed Pages: 384. 037453
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Bikrama Jit Hasrat
Dara Shikuh: Life and Works
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 2013; 8121501601 / 9788121501606; Reprint; Hardcover; New; New; 15 x 23 Cm
Indian tradition remembers Dara Shikuh not so much as an emperor's son, but as a mystic philosopher. The great dream of his life?a dream shattered by his untimely death?was the brotherhood of all faiths and the unity of mankind. After him the vision of unity was lost in the atmosphere of hatred and rivalry created by the warring sects and religious schools, and even today we are living in the age of religious disintegration. The present volume is the outcome of long years of study and research. Life and Works of Dara Shikuh, the tragic philosopher-prince and inheritor of Akbar's tradition of broadmindedness and religious tolerance, are matters of interest for all serious-minded readers. Printed Pages: 339. 037326
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Ruby Lal
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World
Cambridge University Press; New Delhi, India; 0521145546 / 9780521145541; First Edition; Paperback; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
In a fascinating and innovative study, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, the author reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers as well as the 'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and Safavid histories as a counterpoint, she demonstrates the richness, ambiguity and particularity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalisation and imperial excellence. Contents 1. Introduction 2. A genealogy of the Mughal haram 3. The question of the archive: the challenge of a princess's memoir 4. The making of Mughal court society 5. Where was the haram in a peripatetic world? 6. Settled, sacred, and all-powerful: the new regime under Akbar 7. Settled, sacred, and 'incarcerated': the imperial haram 8. Conclusion. Printed Pages: 26 with 6 b/w illustrations. 034005
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W.H. Moreland
From Akbar to Aurangzeb: A Study in Indian Economic History
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1972; 817069020X / 9788170690207; First Indian Edition; Cloth; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
W.H.Moreland's From Akbar to Aurangzeb is study in Indian Economic History of the first half of the seventeenth century during the reigns of the Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shahjahan. This period is important from the standpoint of economic institutions and is marked by certain far-reaching changes which ushered in a new era in the commercial relations of India with the traders from the West. In the present work, Moreland has examined various details on the basis of hitherto-unpublished records of the Dutch, besides re-evaluating the English records of the period. Thus, he has succeeded in highlighting not only the changes that affected the balance of economic power, but has also analysed the most significant stages in the deterioration of Akbar's administrative institutions. The book is divided into ten chapters, beginning with the anylysis of the Asiatic environments. Chapters II to V deal, respectively, with the Development of Dutch and English Commerce of India, Changes in Foreign Commerce of India, the Establishment of New Markets in Western Europe and the Course of Indian Market. In Chapters VI to IX have been discussed Production and Consumption, the Economic Results of Famine, the Economic Influence of the Administration and the System of Taxation. In chapter X, Summary and Conclusion. Moreland has examined the economic forces vis-à-vis the administrative changes and their cumulative effect on the economy of the period, which, in his view, resulted in reducing the reward of production, leading ultimately towards national bankruptcy which eventually occurred. In the five Appendices, Moreland has elaborated the details pertaining to the Dutch English Companies, Early Dutch Exports to Europe, Mughal Revenue Statistics, Currency, Weights and Measures and a List of Authorities. Of added utility are two maps, one of the India and another, the Asiatic Seas, besides a detailed index. Printed Pages: 380 with 1 map. 002571
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W.H. Moreland
India at the Death of Akbar: An Economic Study
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1983; 8170691311 / 9788170691310; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 15 Cms x 23 Cms
India's fabulous wealth was a constant refrain in the narratives of European travelers of the 16-17th centuries. Was India so rich? Even a cursory reading of India's political history of that period shows-wars were common;nobles and rulers squandered their income; ostentation and not thrift was the ideal of the day; there was more of consumption, and less of production; the lawlessness on the highways, the administrative corruption and rapacity of tax-collectors discouraged commerce and industry; the rulers did not evince any interest in maritime trade. Yet the foreign merchants came. Why? W.H.Moreland's India at the death of Akbar tries to find the answers to this enigma. The text in eight chapters and the four appendices provides a wealth of information. The study is based on the accounts of English, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The fact that the author has focused attention on the quantitative aspects of production, consumption, distribution, exports, imports and shipping in terms of tonnage adds to the interest of the work. Historians, economists, social scientists and others will find this work extremely useful in their pursuits. Printed Pages: 340 with 2 maps. 002337
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William Irvine; Edited By Jadunath Sarkar
Later Mughals: Revised and Augmented with the History of Nadir Shah's Invasion (2 Vols. Bound in 1)
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1996; 8121507464 / 9788121507462; Reprint; Hard Cover; New; New; 15 Cms x 23 Cms
William Irvine's Later Mughals is an outstanding narrative of the period following the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. It covers the period from the time of Bahadur Shah I, who ascended the Mughal throne in 1707 and continued to rule till 1738, when Muhammad Shah became the emperor. The tumultuous period between the years 1738-39 when Nadir Shah invaded India and occupied Delhi after defeating Muhammad Shah has also been inducted in order to complete the survey of this important phase of Indian history. Planned on a grand scale, the present work is based entirely on the original Persian and other contemporary sources besides the mass of information gathered from the East India records of the Dutch, French and Portuguese governments as well as the Christian Missions of the East. The outcome of this painstaking research, Later Mughals, however, could be continued only up to 1739, even though Irvine had planned to cover the entire rule of the later Mughals. In the first of the two volumes, Irvine covers the period from Bahadur Shah, who ascended the Mughal throne in 1707, to the brief rule of Rafi-ud-darzat and Rafi-ud-daulah and the death of the latter in September 1719. The second volume deals with the period beginning with accession of Muhammad Shah to the throne; in the final chapters the events connected with the rise and progress of Nadir Shah and his departure from Delhi have been discussed. The array of details, culled from various sources, have been presented by William Irvine with objectivity and scholarship. It is thus a permanent source-book for the history of the later Mughal rulers. It embodies the varied information provided by the various contemporary sources which Irvine verified and supplemented by carefully sifting the information from the accounts of individual travellers and writers. Printed Pages: 858. 022693
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Barbara Schmitz and Ziyaud-Din A. Desai
Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur
Aryan Books International; New Delhi, India; 2006; 8173052786 / 9788173052781; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New;
During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings. Their collection was given to the people of India at the time of partition. The Raza Library at Rampur thus possesses a remarkable collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illustrated books. This includes miniatures from the great Jahangirnama, considered by many as the greatest of all Mughal illustrated manuscripts. The Raza Library holdings of the Akbar period are equally distinguished including a work on astrology Tarjama-I Sirr al-maktum and a Divan-I Hafiz with eleven miniatures by Akbar’s best court artists painted in Lahore about 1585, published here with much new scholarship. A painting of the aging Jahangir at the jharokha and many other portraits of the 17th-19th centuries will come as wonderful surprises to those interested in Indian art throughout the world. Most of the miniatures (some 4,000 in number) and the contents of thirty-five albums of paintings (an additional 1,000 items) are catalogued herein. Many of these are being reproduced for the first time. The catalogue entries include up-to-date scholarly research on Mughal and Persian painting. An extensive bibliography and numerous indices make this volume a helpful tool for scholars. The catalogue’s 330 illustrations will delight every reader. Printed Pages: 276 with 330 colour illustrations. 017836
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Barbara Schmitz and Ziyaud-Din A. Desai
Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur
Aryan Books International; New Delhi, India; 2006; 8173052786 / 9788173052781; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New;
During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings. Their collection was given to the people of India at the time of partition. The Raza Library at Rampur thus possesses a remarkable collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illustrated books. This includes miniatures from the great Jahangirnama, considered by many as the greatest of all Mughal illustrated manuscripts. The Raza Library holdings of the Akbar period are equally distinguished including a work on astrology Tarjama-I Sirr al-maktum and a Divan-I Hafiz with eleven miniatures by Akbar’s best court artists painted in Lahore about 1585, published here with much new scholarship. A painting of the aging Jahangir at the jharokha and many other portraits of the 17th-19th centuries will come as wonderful surprises to those interested in Indian art throughout the world. Most of the miniatures (some 4,000 in number) and the contents of thirty-five albums of paintings (an additional 1,000 items) are catalogued herein. Many of these are being reproduced for the first time. The catalogue entries include up-to-date scholarly research on Mughal and Persian painting. An extensive bibliography and numerous indices make this volume a helpful tool for scholars. The catalogue’s 330 illustrations will delight every reader. Printed Pages: 276 with 330 colour illustrations. 017918
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Thomas Farrell
Mughal Architecture II
Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 1978; 0891482016 / 9780891482017; First Edition; Paperback; Good; 21.5 x 28 Cm
Printed Pages: 38 with numerous b/w illustrations. 018260
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R. Nath
Mughal Inlay Art
D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 2004; 8124602611 / 9788124602614; First Edition; Paperback; New; 19 x 25 Cm
Printed Pages: 116 with 16 coloured and 64 b/w illustrations. 027277
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Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui
Mughal Relations with the Indian Ruling Elite
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1983; 8121501415 / 9788121501415; First Edition; Hardbound; New; New; 15 Cms x 23 Cms
This book has two parts, the King and the Ruling Elite and Persian Sources in translation. The first part rests all types of sources: narrative, numismatic, epigraphic, and literary. It includes a reappraisal, based on neglected evidence, of the state policies and administrative measures of the Mughal emperors. The use of literary materials helps to correct the views of official historians like Abul Fazl on the mature of Mughal rule in India and the opposition to it. The second part contains a critical survey of the Persian sources on the Afghan dynasties in India and an English translation of a portion of the Afsanah-i-Shahan of Shaykh Kabir Batini. This excerpt provides new information on the Karrani rule in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. It also gives vital insights into cultural life and the state role in it. An immense advance on existing scholarship, this book gives a new understanding of the formation and nature of Mughal rule. Printed Pages: 212. 023067
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D.N. Marshall
Mughals in India: A Bibliographical Survey: Volume I-Manuscripts. Supplementary Part 1
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; New Delhi, India; 1996; 8121506409 / 9788121506403; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 16.5 Cms x 25 Cms
This work is supplementary, part I to author's renowned work Mughals in India-a bibliographical survey of manuscripts. In this work an attempt has been made to list, as exhaustive as possible, the sources for the study of India during the period that the country was governed by the Mughals. The sources included in the work are various languages and pertain to various aspects of life-political, economic, social, cultural and others. No language is excluded; no aspect of life is overlooked. The idea is to make the survey as comprehensive and exhaustive as possible, and any source, which, even indirectly is concerned with, or, throw any light on the life and times of the period covered, is included. Printed Pages: 172. 002407
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