Marwar and the Mughal Emperors (A. D. 1526-1748)
Author : Visheshwar Sarup Bhargava
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1966
Category : India
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Author : Visheshwar Sarup Bhargava
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1966
Category : India
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Author : DeWitt C. Ellinwood
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761831136
Diary of Amar Singh with annotations, commentary, and introduction by DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr.
Author : W.M. Thackston, Jr.
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307431959
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Satish Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : India
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Author : Upendra Nath Day
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : India
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Author : Supriya Gandhi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674243919
The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India’s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers—Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb—who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb’s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi’s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.
Author : James M. Hastings
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Bhakti
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Author : 国立国会図書館(Japan)
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Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Libraries
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Author : Tanuja Kothiyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1316673898
The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of its inhabitants - warriors, pastoralists, traders, ascetics and bards, often in overlapping capacities. It challenges the frames of Mughal-Rajput relationships generally employed to explore the histories of the Thar, arguing that Rajputana remains an inadequate category to explore polities located in this frontier region, where along with Rajputs, a range of groups, such as Charans, Bhils, Meenas, Soomras and Pathans controlled circulation, and with whom the Rajput states had to constantly negotiate. Sifting through a wide range of Rajasthani written and oral narratives, travelogues of British administrators, and vernacular as well as English records, the book explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar.
Author : Rima Hooja
Publisher :
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Rajasthan (India)
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Rajasthan- the land of rajas and maharajas, forts and palaces, deserts and ballads, the book covers a wide spectrum encompassing the political, socio-culural and economic history of Rajasthan from the earliest times up-to the middle of the twentieth century, in a comprehensive yet easy- to- read text. A History of Rajasthan uses various archival, epigraphical, numismatical, architectural, archaeological and arthistory related information as well as the traditional narratives and oral and written chronicles to provide a general overview of the city