Book Description
Collection of essays previously published; based on various conference presentations.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Collection of essays previously published; based on various conference presentations.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198077176
Collection of essays previously published; based on various conference presentations.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1839762381
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing. Connected History considers what, exactly, is an empire, the rise of 'the West' (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.
Author : Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107022673
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
Author : Harbans Mukhia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470758155
This innovative book explores of the grandest and longest lastingempire in Indian history. Examines the history of the Mughal presence in India from 1526to the mid-eighteenth century Creates a new framework for understanding the Mughal empire byaddressing themes that have not been explored before. Subtly traces the legacy of the Mughals’ world intoday’s India.
Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
ISBN : 0870994999
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Muzaffar Alam
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195652253
The Mughal state, has, ever since its existence, exercised a compelling effect on observers. Debates have rage concerning its character and on the nature of the Mughal state. This book brings together some of the key interventions in these debates.
Author : Mika Natif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 900437499X
In Mughal Occidentalism, Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, this book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history. A reevaluation of illustrated manuscripts and album paintings incorporating landscape scenery, portraiture, and European objects demonstrates that the appropriation of European elements was highly motivated by Mughal concerns. This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9351184552
James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa—'Most Excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister. He fell in love with Khair, and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company. Possessing all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, White Mughals is a remarkable tale of harem politics, secret assignations, court intrigue, religious disputes and espionage.
Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1316516814
Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.