Author: R L Hangloo
Publisher: Manohar
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8173042519
Description
A lucid, informative and comprehensive account of political processes and their varied foundations in Medieval Kashmir.
Based on Sanskrit, Persian and other sources on the history of the region Prof. Hangloo examines some of the principal ways through which the regions social and religious life interacted with the then current political formations to produce peculiar structure of power and domination.
The book also analyses in detail problems that the medieval state faced in Kashmir while evolving its ideological apparatus and legitimational tools.
THE AUTHOR
Prof. Rattan Lal Hangloo is a Professor in the department of History at Hyderabad Central University.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Historical Roots of State Formation in Pre-Sultanate Kashmir
Conversions to Islam and the Consolidation of a Social Base of Power in the Sultanate
The Sayyids, Sultans and the State:
A Search for Legitimacy 1339-1470
The Incorporation of the Sultanate into the Mughal State
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index