Khandesh Under the Mughals 1601 – 1724 A.D.

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Khandesh under the Great Mughals had not been a subject of an intensive research as other areas under the same rulers had been. This constitutes the main justification for the present study. The annexation of Khandesh in 1601 by Akbar was an event of great military and economic importance in the history of Mughal India. Khandesh provided a territorial link between the north and the south. The Mughals realised this; they made use of its resources to promote, preserve and protect the imperial interests. The region, in fact, assumed far greater importance under the Mughals than it had under the Faruqis. For a century and a quarter (1601-1724), Khandesh as a Mughal province played a vital role in the history of medieval Deccan. The terminal date for the study of the political history of Khandesh under the Great Mughals should be 1707, when Aurangzeb passed away, but the legacies of the Great Mughals in the socio-economic and cultural life on the people of Khandesh could be traced to 1724, when Asaf Jah began his rule. The legacies survived the end of the political domination of the area by the Great Mughals when their weak successors‘ hold on the region proved both ineffective and uncertain. Even the administrative structure of the region under the later Mughals (till 1724) remained much the same as under Aurangzeb. The study is drawn mainly on original and contemporary Persian sources, some of which are published and unpublished. Of these sources, Persian manuscripts, court chronicles, Persian tazkirahs, hagiological and epistolary work, Mughal documents, Persian biographical works and inscriptions, English Factory Records and accounts of European travelers, commentaries on original Persian sources, Marathi documents, archaeological reports and numismatic journals have been consulted. Secondary sources, too, have been utilized as they both complement and supplement the information gleaned from original source materials.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohd. Ilyas Quddusi

Dr. Muhammad Ilyas Quddusi belonging to Kamptee near Nagpur, is presently Director (Epigraphy) for Arabic & Persian Inscriptions, Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur. He had his graduation in 1971, post-graduation both in History (1973) and Persian Literature (1976), and doctorate degree in Medieval Indian History (1992), from Nagpur University. Dr. Quddusi has authored the commendable book Khandesh under the Mughals: 1601-1724 (N. Delhi, 2002) and contributed about fifty research papers on medieval India which cover diverse fields as Persian epigraphy, Persian language & literature, numismatics, archaeology, onomastics, art and architecture; political, social, economic and cultural history. He has participated in various epigraphical, numismatic, place-name, history and Persian seminars and international conferences. He has edited Puraprakasa – Dr. Z.A. Desai Commemoration Volume (Delhi 2003). Two issues of the research journal Epigraphia Indica Arabic and Persian Supplement for the years 1976 and 1977 have been brought out under his supervision and the next issue for the year 1978, edited by him, is press-ready. He presided over one of the sessions in XXII All India Persian Teachers’ Conference, International Session, held at Punjabi University, Patiala (2000) and delivered Prof. D. Javare Gowda Endowment Lecture in the XXIII Annual Conference of Place Names Society of India, held at Mumbai (2003). In 2002, he visited Jordan under Indo-Jordanian cultural exchange programme; he studied important historical monuments and sites and delivered lectures on Persian epigraphy, Muslim coins and monuments both in the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and through the Indian Embassy at Regency Place Hotel, Amman.

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Title
Khandesh Under the Mughals 1601 – 1724 A.D.
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8187763213
Length
xxiv+318p., Maps; Plates; Notes; References; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 30cm.
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