The Mughal Padshah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mughal Padshah write by Jorge Flores. This book was released on 2015-11-16. The Mughal Padshah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguing insights on Jahangir and his family, the Mughal court and its political rituals, as well as the imperial elite and its military and economic strength. A comprehensive introduction situates the Treatise in the ‘disputed’ landscape of European accounts on Mughal India, as well as illuminates the actual conditions of production and readership of such a text between South Asia and the Iberian Peninsula.
Universal Empire
Universal Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Universal Empire write by Peter Fibiger Bang. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Universal Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.
The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719
The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 write by Munis D. Faruqui. This book was released on 2012-08-27. The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new interpretation of the Mughal Empire explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of its princes.
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan write by Ruby Lal. This book was released on 2018-07-03. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History "A luminous biography." —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handling matters of the state. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire. In Empress, Nur Jahan finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
The Last Mughal
The Last Mughal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Mughal write by William Dalrymple. This book was released on 2009-08-17. The Last Mughal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
