Urban Culture in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century

This is perhaps the first work concerned exclusively with Muslim Society and Culture in eighteenth century India. The book was originally presented as doctoral thesis at the Aligarh Muslim University, but is now presented in a fully revised and personae of rise and decline of Indian towns in northern India, origin and development of Urdu language and literature, development of Persian literature; food, dress, customs and domestic life in the last phase before colonialism and the beginnings of modernization.