Mughal India
Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society and Culture
Price: 645.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195696615
Publication date:
07/05/2008
Paperback
432 pages
216x140mm
Price: 645.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195696615
Publication date:
07/05/2008
Paperback
432 pages
M. Athar Ali
Author an eminent scholar of Mughal history,Preface by Irfan Habib,Important reference for teachers and students of Mughal history
Rights: World Rights
M. Athar Ali
Description
The late Professor M. Athar Ali was one of the foremost authorities on Mughal history. This book is a selection of some of his best essays on a wide range of themes from the realm of ideas (including religion) to polity, administration, society and culture of the Mughal period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). Some essays are interpretative, others represent detailed research, and rest share both elements. What unites them is his critical approach and consistence proximity to the Persian source material. The book includes a critique of 'revisionist' approaches in the study of the Mughal polity, and a section on sources. Professor Irfan Habib has provided
the preface.
This selection of thirty-one essays on the Mughal period (with a few on the pre-Mughal period) will be extremely useful to students and researchers of history and scholars of Islam.
About the author
M. Athar Ali, (Late) Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim UniversityM. Athar Ali
Description
The late Professor M. Athar Ali was one of the foremost authorities on Mughal history. This book is a selection of some of his best essays on a wide range of themes from the realm of ideas (including religion) to polity, administration, society and culture of the Mughal period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). Some essays are interpretative, others represent detailed research, and rest share both elements. What unites them is his critical approach and consistence proximity to the Persian source material. The book includes a critique of 'revisionist' approaches in the study of the Mughal polity, and a section on sources. Professor Irfan Habib has provided
the preface.
This selection of thirty-one essays on the Mughal period (with a few on the pre-Mughal period) will be extremely useful to students and researchers of history and scholars of Islam.
About the author
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