Advanced Study in the History of Medieval IndiaSterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
Contents
INTRODUCTORY | 1 |
Mongolistan or Mughalistan Early SocioReligious | 7 |
Survey of the Sources | 19 |
Contemporary Writers and their Works | 29 |
Babars Memoirs Mirza Haider Dughlat Gulbadan | 37 |
PREMUGHAL INDIA | 81 |
Triple Contest for Supremacy Jaunpur Bengal Orissa | 95 |
3 | 101 |
Concluding Years of Akbars Life | 305 |
Character and Personality of Akbar | 312 |
MUGHAL ADMINISTRATION | 325 |
Provincial and Local Administration | 340 |
Mansabdari System | 348 |
JAHANGIR | 374 |
Chronicle of Jahangirs Reign 161127 | 398 |
War and Peace with Mewar 160615 Deccan Policy | 404 |
BABAR | 119 |
HUMAYUN | 146 |
THE AFGHAN INTERLUDE | 162 |
Administrative Reforms and other | 171 |
Reformer but no Innovator Imperial Government | 184 |
Rise and Fall of Bairam Khan | 196 |
Triumph of Absolute Monarchy | 207 |
Ministers in Six Months Conquest of Malwa Death | 216 |
b Completion of the Conquest | 246 |
Conquest of Gujarat 157273 Conquest of Bihar | 258 |
Akbar and Religion | 278 |
SHAH JAHAN | 418 |
Rebellion of Khan Jahan Lodhi 162831 Rebellion | 441 |
AURANGZEB | 474 |
Hindu Reaction and Struggle Against | 499 |
Gobind and the Mughals 16751708 The Battle | 510 |
Public Protest against Jaziya and Aurangzebs Reaction | 520 |
Aurangzeb and the Marathas | 532 |
DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE | 565 |
An Assessment and the Legacy | 573 |
Common terms and phrases
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