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Author | : Lisa Balabanlilar |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0857732463 |
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Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.
Author | : Lisa Balabanlilar |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857720813 |
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Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.
Author | : Lisa Balabanlilar |
Publisher | : I. B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781780768847 |
Download The Emperor Jahangir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jahangir was the fourth of the 'Great Six' Mughal Emperors. The son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, Jahangir's important role in building a Mughal cultural identity has been neglected. Jahangir was a great lover of art, and Mughal painting reached new heights under his patronage. He was also a patron of the sciences, and the world's first seamless celestial globe was created under his reign. Seeking to uncover the man behind the figurehead, and taking an in-depth new look at Jahangir's personal memoirs, the Jahangirnama, The Emperor Jahangir reveals in detail Jahangir's battles with alcoholism and opium addiction, his struggles for power, his defence of kingship and courtly manners and his dealings with the rebellion led by his first son, Khusraw, whose uprising he crushed in 1605. This is one of the golden ages of the early modern world, and this book sheds new light on a remarkable historical figure.
Author | : John F. Richards |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780511584060 |
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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 | : Lisa Balabanlilar |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1838600442 |
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Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his reputation marred by rebellion against his father, once enthroned the Emperor Jahangir proved to be an adept politician. He was also a thoughtful and reflective memoirist and a generous patron of the arts, responsible for an innovative golden age in Mughal painting. Through a close study of the seventeenth century Mughal court chronicles, The Emperor Jahangir sheds new light on this remarkable historical figure, exploring Jahangir's struggle for power and defense of kingship, his addictions and insecurities, his relationship with his favourite wife, the Empress Nur Jahan, and with his sons, whose own failed rebellions bookended his reign.
Author | : Nicholas B. Dirks |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674034260 |
Download The Scandal of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
Author | : Peter Fibiger Bang |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139560956 |
Download Universal Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.
Author | : Michael H. Fisher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107111625 |
Download An Environmental History of India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Author | : Chanchal B. Dadlani |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300233175 |
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This groundbreaking volume examines how the Mughal Empire used architecture to refashion its identity and stage authority in the 18th century, as it struggled to maintain political power against both regional challenges and the encroaching British Empire.
Author | : Munis D. Faruqui |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107022177 |
Download The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new interpretation of the Mughal Empire explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of its princes.