Mughal India : studies in polity, ideas, society and culture / by M. Athar Ali

Includes index.

ANTECEDENTS: The Islamic background to Indian history: an interpretation of the Islamic past -- Encounter and efflorescence: the genesis of the medieval civilization -- Nobility under Muhammad Tughluq -- Capital of the Sultans: Delhi during the 13th and 14th centuries -- The Punjab between the 13th and 15th centuries -- FORMATIONOF THE EMPIRE: Towards an interpretation of the Mughal Empire -- The pre-colonial social structure and the polity of the Mughal Empire -- The Mughal polity: a critique of 'Revisionist' approaches -- Political structures of the Islamic Orient in the 16th and 17th centuries -- POLITICAL THOUGHT: The evolution of the perception of India: Akbar and Abul Fazl -- The state in Islamic thought in India -- Elements of Social Justice in mediaeval Islamic thought -- THE RELIGIOUS WORLD: The 'Vision' in the salt range, 1578: an interpretation -- Sulh-i Kul and the religious ideas of Akbar -- Translations of Sanskrit works at Akbar's court -- The religious world of Jahangir -- The religious environment under Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb -- Sidelights into ideological and religious attitudes in the Punjab during the 17th century -- Pursuing an elusive seeker of universal truth: the Identity and environment of the author of the Dabistan-i Mazahib -- Muslims' perceptions of Judaism and Christianity in medieval India -- THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE: The religious issue in the War of Succession1658-9 -- Causes of the Rathor Rebellion of 1679 -- Provincial governors under Aurangzeb: an analysis -- THE EMPIRE AND CONTEMPORARY POWERS: 'International Law' or conventions governing conduct of relations between Asian States, 16th and 17th centuries -- Jahangir and the Uzbeks -- The objectives behind the Mughal expedition into Balkh and Badakhshan, 1646-7 -- THE PASSING OF THE EMPIRE: The passing of the empire: the Mughal case -- Recent theories of 18th century India -- SOURCES: History in Indo-Muslim tradition -- The use of sources in Mughal historiography -- The correspondence of Aurangzeb and its historical significance