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Rampur Raza Library, a premier repository of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, possesses also a valuable collection of eleven astronomical instruments, such as astrolabes, celestial globes and quadrants. These were produced in India, in the Middle-East and in Europe between the thirteenth and the nineteenth century. Scientific instruments of the pre-modern period, like literary documents, constitute an important source for the reconstruction of the history of ...
Mahabat Khan's coup d'etat is an event of gigantic significance in the history of the Mughal empire. It was the first revolt of a Mughal noble which reduced the Emperor Jahangir to the position of a prisoner and transferred all normal government for the moment, into the hands of Mahabat Khan. The relevant factors, personal, political and religious, combined to determine Mahabat's attitude towards Jahangir and led to a serious though short-lived crisis in the ...
Professor Nurul Hasan or Nuru as he was affectionately called by members of the family and those close to him, was not only a profound scholar and a gifted teacher, but a great institution builder. Apart from the Centre for Advanced Study in History at the Aligarh Muslim University, he built many other institutions, such as the Indian Council of Historical Research, the Maualana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Affairs, the Society for Indian Ocean Studies, ...