Book: Medieval India 1


Medieval India 1 : Researches in the History of INdia 1200-1750

Edited by Irfan Habib

History should not be study of Kings and their battles for lands and wealth. History of Medieval India has been reduced to history of Sultans and Mughals and their battles. I am always interested in what ordinary people were doing at that time, what were their aspirations and how they lived during that time.

While we appreciated Mughal administrative system that even British adopted more or less. Who were the people who came up with this system, and how it evolved? What about science and technology during those times that was required to support this system?

This book provides some answers and looking at the references cites, it seems that some work has been done in this area but general public is unaware of it.

Table of Contents:

Formation of the Sultanate Ruling Class of the Thirteenth Centry: Irfan Habib
Social Mobility in the Delhi Sultanate: Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui
Irrigating Haryana: The Pre-Modern History of the Western Yamuna Canal: Abha Singh
The Mughal Assignment System during Akbar's Early Years, 1556-1575: Iqtidar Alam Khan
Political Structures of the Islamic Orient in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuruies: M. Athar Ali
Hindu Shrines and Practices as Described by a Central Asian Travveller in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: Iqbal Husain
An Aristocratic Surgeon of Mughal India- Muqarrab Khan: Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
Agriculture and Revenue Rates in the Mathura Region (1724-42): SP Gupta
The Ruler and the Nobility in Marwar During the Reign of Jaswant Singh: BL Bhadani

This book also has complete text of "Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas on Problems of Revenue Administration, 1665." This farman will remove lot of misconceptions about Aurangzeb.

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