Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir: an introductory study in social history, 2nd rev. ed.

Raychaudhuri, Tapan

ISBN: 9788121503563, 8121503566

The book is a revised and enlarged edition of a book originally pyblished in 1953 as doctoral dissertation of the author.

Between history and legend: status and power in Bundelkhand

Jain, Ravindra K

ISBN: 9788125021940, 8125021949

The Bundelkhand cultural region straddles several districts of southern Uttar Pradesh. The present account deals with the social structure and history of the native states of Bundelkhand.

Waqai Asad Beg Qazvini by Asad Beg Qazvini, Persian text critically ed. with introd. in English by Chandra Shekhar (Persian)

ISBN: 9789380829029, 9380829027

The work is on the final days of the emperor Akbar, and provides a fascinating glimpse of early 17th century medieval India-Mughal Court at Agra to Bijapur and Mughal gubernatorial offices in Deccan.

Bharatpur: a saga of invincible courage

Verma, CS

ISBN: 9788122006636, 8122006639

An absorbing saga of Jat peasants of Braj, propelled onto the centre stage of north Indian polity in the mid-18th century.

Maasir-i-Alamgiri: a history of the emperor Aurangzib-`Alamgir (reign 1658-1707 A.D.) of Saqi Must'ad Khan, tr. into English and annotated by Sir Jadu-Nath Sarkar

Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sansk rit and Tamil in Medieval India

Cox, Whitney et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9788184701944, 8184701942

This collection of essays aims to trace the exchanges, responses, affinities and fissures between the worlds of Sanskrit and Tamil literary cultures in the medieval period. The literati who produced the works in these languages moved freely between domains that earlier Indological scholarship has tended to compartmentalise. The eleven studies presented in this volume strive to move beyond this ...

Medieval India: studies in polity, economy and society, fourteenth-nineteenth centuries

Husain, Zakir

ISBN: 9789352907267, 9352907264

This book contains wide-ranging surveys of various aspects of the history of India's medieval past. Based on a close scrutiny of the documents at the National Archives of India as well as private collections.

Biography of Nurjahan

Sufian, Abu

ISBN: 9788121513241, 8121513243

Nurjahan was the queen of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor.

Kotah-Maratha relations (1660-1818 A.D.), based on original sources

Gadre, Prabhakar

ISBN: 9789391123635, 9391123635

Born to trade: Indian business communities in medieval and early modern Eurasia

Gopal, Surendra

ISBN: 9789350981238, 9350981238

The pioneering work traces migration of Indian traders to Russia, Iran, West Asia and South-East Asia in medieval times. Four essays throw light on the activities of the Indian business community in Russia. Generally Indians came to Russia via Iran. There they took a boat, crossed the Caspian Sea and reached the Russian port of Astrakhan. Indian visitors included Hindus (including Jains), Musli...

Brahmanism & the Sultans of Delhi (1206-1526)

Ahmed, Asad

ISBN: 9788190563017, 8190563017

Historiography of medieval India: a study of Mohammad Habib, foreword by Irfan Habib

Subodh, Sanjay

ISBN: 9789350027837, 9350027836

Building histories: the archival and affective lives of five monuments in modern Delhi

Rajagopalan, Mrinalini

ISBN: 9789384092887, 9384092886

The book offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi--the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex--tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. (For sale only in South Asia)

Burhanpur: unexplored history, monuments and society

Mishra, Suresh et al

ISBN: 9788186787212, 8186787216

The present volume deals with the history, culture and social life of Burhanpur since its inception. Founded by Faruqi ruler Nasir Khan in 1407, the city was the capital of the Faruqi kingdom for two centuries, till its occupation by the Mughal emperor Akbar at the close of the 16th century.

The caliphate: its rise, decline, and fall, from original sources, 2 vols., a new and rev. edition by T.H. Weir

Muir, Sir William

ISBN: 9788130700090, 8130700093

The book is based upon the Annals of Ibn al-Athir, who lived and wrote at Mosul in the early part of the thirteenth century A.D. Ibn al-Athir's work.;

The calling of history: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

ISBN: 9788178244983, 8178244985

This book examines Sarkar's career - and poignant obsolescence-as a way into larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life. It also offers a valuable look at the double life of history and how tensions between its public and privates sides played out in a major scholar's career.

Celebrating Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, ed. & designed by Shakeel Hossain, Co-ed. by Deepti Ray, with 93 illustrations and music CD

ISBN: 9789385360275, 9385360272

Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1556-1627), referred to in Mughal records as the `noble of nobles', was one of the Nine Gems of Emperor Akbar's court. Hailed upon his birth as a pearl from the river of good fortune, Rahim Khan-i-Khanan distinguished himself as an unmatched soldier, statesman, patron and poet in the courts of three generations of Mughal emperors. This book, published alongside a cult...

Central Asia in fifteenth century (1405-1500 AD) Habib-us-Siyar (translation)

Qureshi, Hamid Afaq

ISBN: 9798189267468, 8189267469

The Present book contains the English translations of Habib-us-Siyar dealing with the rise and fall of the successors of Amir Timur Gurgaon during the Fifteenth Century and a very authentic and reliable account.

Central Asia under the Mongols

Gulati, GD

ISBN: 9788189835125, 8189835122

This study deals with Central Asia under the Mongols. It begins with a critical survey of ecological factors and their impact in making Central Asia as a specific region. The author examines in details the rise of the Mongol power under Chingiz Khan and his successors.

Central Asian heritage in the Mughal polity, introd. by S. Inayat A. Zaidi

Haidar, Mansura

ISBN: 9788187879114, 8187879114