Climate of Conquest

War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India

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ISBN:

9780199495559

Publication date:

19/11/2019

Hardback

368 pages

Price: 1395.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780199495559

Publication date:

19/11/2019

Hardback

368 pages

Dr. Pratyay Nath

The nature of the Mughal state is one of the biggest areas of scholarly debate in Indian history. This book makes a direct contribution to this field of knowledge by looking at the Mughal state through the lens of war.

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Dr. Pratyay Nath

Description

What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Here the author eschews the conventional way of writing about warfare primarily in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that Mughal war-making shared with the broader dynamics of society, culture, and politics. In the process, he offers a new analysis of the Mughal empire from the vantage point of war.
Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that these campaigns unfolded in constant negotiation with the diverse natural environment of South Asia. The empire sought to discipline the environment and harness its resources to satisfy its own military needs. At the same time, environmental factors like climate, terrain, and ecology profoundly influenced Mughal military tactics, strategy, and deployment of technology. The book also explores the world of non-elite labour that spearheaded Mughal military logistics, the process of formation of imperial frontiers, and the empire's legitimisation of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.

Pratyay Nath is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of History, Ashoka University. He is a historian of war and empire. Climate of Conquest is his first book.

Dr. Pratyay Nath

Table of contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. FIGHTING WARS: CAMPAIGNS, ENVIRONMENT, EMPIRE
Chapter 1. Environment and the Heterogeneous Conquest of North India
Chapter 2. Moving East, Moving West: War, Environment, and Imperial Expansion
PART II. PRODUCING WARS: LOGISTICS, FRONTIER, IDEOLOGY
Chapter 3. Military Labour, Animals, and the Material Production of War
Chapter 4. Routes, Forts, Environment, and the Making of Imperial Frontiers
Chapter 5. Ideology, Empire, and the Cultural Climate of War
Conclusion
Bibliography

Dr. Pratyay Nath

Features

  • The nature of the Mughal state is one of the biggest areas of scholarly debate in Indian history. This book makes a direct contribution to this field of knowledge by looking at the Mughal state through the lens of war.
  • A well researched book relevant for different college/university courses on Mughal history

Dr. Pratyay Nath

Dr. Pratyay Nath

Description

What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Here the author eschews the conventional way of writing about warfare primarily in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that Mughal war-making shared with the broader dynamics of society, culture, and politics. In the process, he offers a new analysis of the Mughal empire from the vantage point of war.
Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that these campaigns unfolded in constant negotiation with the diverse natural environment of South Asia. The empire sought to discipline the environment and harness its resources to satisfy its own military needs. At the same time, environmental factors like climate, terrain, and ecology profoundly influenced Mughal military tactics, strategy, and deployment of technology. The book also explores the world of non-elite labour that spearheaded Mughal military logistics, the process of formation of imperial frontiers, and the empire's legitimisation of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.

Pratyay Nath is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of History, Ashoka University. He is a historian of war and empire. Climate of Conquest is his first book.

Table of contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. FIGHTING WARS: CAMPAIGNS, ENVIRONMENT, EMPIRE
Chapter 1. Environment and the Heterogeneous Conquest of North India
Chapter 2. Moving East, Moving West: War, Environment, and Imperial Expansion
PART II. PRODUCING WARS: LOGISTICS, FRONTIER, IDEOLOGY
Chapter 3. Military Labour, Animals, and the Material Production of War
Chapter 4. Routes, Forts, Environment, and the Making of Imperial Frontiers
Chapter 5. Ideology, Empire, and the Cultural Climate of War
Conclusion
Bibliography