Akbar and His India

Akbar and His India

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Author: Irfan Habib
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000/2005
Language: English
Pages: 315
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-0-19-564632-0

Description

The 1992 national celebrations of the 450th birth anniversary of Akbar provided a much-needed impetus to research on Akbar and his times, and some of the results of such research are brought together in this volume.




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EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:



This volume bears the imprint of a scholarship that has become unfashionable in these post-modern times. Collectively the articles provide the most authentic and representative statement on Akbar to date.
- Parvathi Menon, Frontline



A Welcome volume, for no recent work has given much attention to the subjects considered here.
- Catherine B Asher, The journal of Asian Studies



What the book does, it does very well and is marked by the thoroughness of scholarship and editing that characterize book the books of Habib.
- Pratibha Iyer, Indian Review of Books



Can it be that Akbar was to India in the 16th century what Habib is to medieval Indian history today.
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, India Today

Contents

Editorial Note



* Akbar’s initial Encounters with the Chiefs: Accident vs. Design in the Process of subjugation - Ahsan Raza Khan


* Akbar and the Rajput Principalities: Integration into Empire - S Inyat A Zaidi


* Akbar’s Annexation of Singh – An interpretation - Sunita Zaidi


* The Mughal Annexation of Singh – A Diplomatic and Military History
- Fatima Bilgrami


* Disappearance of Coin Minting in the 1580? - A Note on the Alf Coins
- Najaf Haider


* Akbar’s Farmans – A Study in Diplomatic - Iqbal Husain


* Akbar’s Personality Traits and World Outlook–A Critical Appraisal - Iqtidar Alam Khan


* Akbar and the Jains - Pushpa Prasad


* Science and Superstition under Akbar and Jahangir: The observation of Astronomical Phenomena - Shireen Moosvi


* Scientific Concepts in Abu’l Fazl’s A in-i Akbari - Iqbal Ghani Khan


* Akbar and Technology - Irfan Habib


* Painting under Akbar as Narrative Art - Som Prakash Verma


* Revisiting Fatehpuri Sikri – An Interpretation of Certain Buildings
- S Ali Nadeem Rezavi


* The Image of Akbar as a Patron of Music in Indo-Persian and Vernacular Sources
- Francoise Nailini Delvoye


* The Perception of India in Akbar and Abu’l Fazl - M Athar Ali


* Middle Bengali :Literature: A Source for the Study of Bengal in the Age of Akbar
- Aniruddha Ray


* The Sikh Movement During the Reign of Akbar - J S Grewal


* Akbar and Portuguese Maritime Dominance - K S Mathew



DOCUMENTS:



* A Farman of Akbar (1558) from the Period of Regency

* Three Early Farmans of Akbar, in Favor of Ramdas, the Master Dyer

* An Estimate of Revenues of the Decca Kingdoms, 1591

* A Dutch Memoir of 1603 on Indian Textile



REVIEWS:



* Muhammad Ghausi Shattari: Gulzar-i Abrar

* Arif Qandahari: Tarikh-i Akbari

* Shireen Moosvi Episodes in the life of Akbar

* John F Richards The Mughal Empire

* Sanjay Subrahmanyam Money and the Market in India

* Som Prakash Verma Mughal Painters and their Work

* Iqatidar H Siddiqui Sher Shah Sur and his Dynasty

* Sukumar Ray Bairam Khan

* Amina Okada Imperial Mughal Painters

* Margaret H Case Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone



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