Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society and Culture (Oxford India Collection (Paperback)) - Softcover

M. Athar Ali

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195696611 ISBN 13: 9780195696615

Publisher: OUP India, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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The late Professor M. Athar Ali was Professor at Aligarh Muslim University. He was one of the foremost historians of Mughal India.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195696611
• ISBN 13: 9780195696615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436