Writing the Mughal world studies in political culture
by Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- Ranikhet Permanent Black 2011
- xviii, 516p. : maps ; 22.5 cm.
Includes index.
Letters from a sinking Sultan -- The Mughals 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