Exploring medieval India : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: culture, gender, regional patterns II / edited by Meena Bhargava

Includes bibliography.

SECTION ONE: CULTURE, DIVERSE FORMS : The pursuit of Persian: language in Mughal politics / by Muzaffar Alam -- Development of Insha Literature to the end of Akbar's reign / by Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli -- On the margins of Utopia: one more look at Mughal painting / by Monica Juneja -- Mapping Hindu Muslim identities through the architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur / by Catherine B. Asher -- Nau Ruz in Mughal India / by Stephen P. Blake -- Gender politics and the Urdu ghazal: exploratory observations on Rekhta versus Rekhti / by Carla Petievich -- SECTION TWO: GENDER AND MEDIEVALISM : The domestic world of peripatetic kings: Babur and Humayun,c.1494-1556 / by Ruby Lal -- The capture of Maryam-uz-Zamani's ship: Mughal women and European traders / by Ellison Banks Findly -- Regulating the domestic: notes on the pre-colonial state and the family / by Dilbagh Singh -- Representing 'his' women: Mirza Abu Talib Khan's 1801 vindication of the liberties of Asiatic women / by Michael H. Fisher -- SECTION THREE: PATTERNS OF TRANSITION : Eighteenth century India: another view / by Burton Stein -- The first age of global imperialism, c.1760-1830 / by C. A. Bayly -- Credit, work and race in 1790s Calcutta: early Colonialism through a contemporary European view / by Peter Robb -- Europeans in late Mughal South Asia: the perceptions of Italian missionaries / by David N. Lorenzen -- SECTION FOUR: REGION, REGIONAL FORMATIONS AND THE MUGHAL EMPIRE : Evolution of the Rathor state of Marvar: horses, structural change and warfare / by Norman P. Ziegler -- Abu Fazl's account of Akbar's expansionism: ambit of reason and tolerance / by Ahsan Raza Khan -- The limits of Empire / by Jos Gommans -- Role of Sufis and Bhaktas in North Western India during the eighteenth century / by Zahir Uddin Malik