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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154895703321

Autore

Fisher Michael Herbert <1950->

Titolo

A short history of the Mughal Empire / / Michael Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

0-7556-0491-1

0-85772-777-X

0-85772-976-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

I.B. short histories

Disciplina

954.02/5

Soggetti

Mogul Empire History

Mogul Empire Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Central Asia and Indian origins of the Mughal Empire, 1526-40, 1555-6. Babur until his conquest of North India in 1526 -- Indians and Emperor Babur create the Mughal Empire, 1526-30 -- Emperor Humayun and Indians, 1530-40, 1555-6 -- Establishment of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, 1556-1605. Emperor Akbar makes himself the center of the Mughal Empire -- Emperor Akbar and his core courtiers build the Mughal administration and army -- Emperor Akbar's courts, ideologies and wars, by main capital -- The Mughal Empire established, 1605-1707. Emperor Jahangir and the efflorescence of the Imperial Court, 1605-27 -- Emperor Shah Jahan and building up the Mughal Empire, 1628-58/66 -- Expanding the frontiers and facing challenges under Emperor 'Alamgir, 1658-1707 -- The fragmentation and memory of the Mughal Empire, 1707-the present. The thinning of the empire, 1707-1857 -- Contested meanings of the Mughal Empire into the twenty-first century.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and



decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire."--Back cover.