Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Supriya Gandhi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674243919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: John F. Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780511584060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.

Author: Munis D. Faruqui
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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A new interpretation of the Mughal Empire explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of its princes.

Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
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ISBN: 9788125036906
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book is an abridged version of the unrivalled five-volume History of Aurangzib by Sir Jadunath Sarkar. It contains one half of the material of the original work. Yet, the author, who himself shortened it, has not compromised on the essential aspects of this history practically the history of India for sixty year. Aurangzib s career prior to his accession has been skillfully compressed while significant events during his reign have been dealt with in detail. This concise edition, written in an inimitable style, will continue to be a valuable resource for students and scholars of medieval Indian history.

Author: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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