Akbar and His India

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This volume brings together a large number of studies focused on Akbar, his empire, and his environment, to present a picture of the polity and culture of India between four and five hundred years ago. The essays in this volume relate to administrative and political history, religious thought, science and technology, the arts, and the social and economic environment during Akbar’s time. The contributors explore new fields and challenge or seek to modify existing lines of thought. This volume will be of great value to anyone who wishes to understand India ad it was four centuries ago. Whether India has a tangible history as a composite political and cultural entity is a matter of immediate importance today : for this, the political and cultural vision of Akbar will be of abiding interest.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, formerly Professor of History at Aligarh Muslim University, is a well-known historian and author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (1963; second rev. edn. 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), and Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995). He is also the author of Prehistory (2001), the first in a series of monographs on a People’s History of India, to be published successively under the auspices of the Aligarh Historians Society.

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Title
Akbar and His India
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Edition
3rd ed.
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ISBN
0195646320
Length
x+316p., 22cm.
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