Author: Muhammad Qamaruddin
Publisher: Adam Publishers
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174353860
Description
This study includes a brief description of the political events 1526 and 1707 and is meant to serve as a background to the cultural activities of the Mughul emperors, whose contribution in the fields of education, poetry, calligraphy and painting have been chosen for special treatment. This study is thus selective not all-embracing. It does not include, for instance, their activities in the field of architecture, which is due course brought into existence one of the wonders of world in the shape of the Taj Mahal.
Though this study is based primarily on contemporary and semi-contemporary Persian sources and on accounts of European travelers, who throw a flood of light on the social-cultural life of Mughal India, modern works in English, Persian and Urdu, having a bearing on Indian society and culture under the Mughuls, have also been freely consulted and duly referred to.
Contents
ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER ONE
India under the Babar and Humayun
CHAPTER TWO
Consolidation and Expansion of Empire under Akbar
CHAPTER THREE
Akbar and Religion
CHAPTER FOUR
The Age of Splendour under Jahangir and Shah Jahan
CHAPTER FIVE
The Empire under Aurangzeb
CHAPTER SIX
Economic and Social Progress under the Great Mughuls
CHAPTER SEVEN
Arts and Culture, Education, Poetry
CHAPTER EIGHT
Arts and Culture: Calligraphy and Painting
INDEX