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"This is a succinct, readable, and comprehensible summary of one of the most important eras in India's
history....It should become the major text on Mughal history." Choice

"Richards's volume fills an important gap. Until now there has been no basic narrative, political history of
the Mughal empire....Richards's approach has the virtue of integrating a great deal of the newest research into
a familiar framework....His clear and concise synthesis of the new scholarship on the Mughal empire in India
provides a context for the student and a point of departure for all subsequent scholarly work in the field."
American Historical Review

"...a clearly written, intelligent synthesis of scholarship on a major topic of the history of the Indian
subcontinent. The volume will, without doubt, become the textbook of choice for this subject." Barbara D.
Metcalf, Asian Thought and Society

"...a readable, expanded narrative history of the Mughal Empire from its foundation in 1526 to the onset of
its decline in the early eighteenth century. It is written and organized in the familiar Cambridge History style,
and will serve as a suitable standard reference for general Mughal political history." Richard Foltz, Harvard
Middle East and Islamic Review

From the Back Cover

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern world history. It was
founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the
entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. As well as military success,
the Mughal emperors displayed immense wealth and the ceremonies, etiquette, music, poetry, and
exquisitely executed paintings and objects of the imperial court fused together to create a distinctive
aristocratic high culture. In this volume, Professor John Richards traces the history of this magnificent
empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. He stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial
expansion, their institutional innovation in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological
change, and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. Professor Richards also analyzes institutions
particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early
modern world. The Mughal Empire offers a concise and up-to-date synthesis of this spectacular period in the
history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian
history and civilization and will be of interest to travellers wishing to know more about the background to
the great Mughal monuments.
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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces
the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the
dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and
military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also
analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's
links with the early modern world.

● Sales Rank: #802879 in Books

● Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
● Published on: 1996-01-26
● Original language: English
● Number of items: 1
● Dimensions: 8.98" h x .75" w x 5.98" l, 1.20 pounds
● Binding: Paperback
● 340 pages

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Review
"This is a succinct, readable, and comprehensible summary of one of the most important eras in India's
history....It should become the major text on Mughal history." Choice

"Richards's volume fills an important gap. Until now there has been no basic narrative, political history of
the Mughal empire....Richards's approach has the virtue of integrating a great deal of the newest research into
a familiar framework....His clear and concise synthesis of the new scholarship on the Mughal empire in India
provides a context for the student and a point of departure for all subsequent scholarly work in the field."
American Historical Review

"...a clearly written, intelligent synthesis of scholarship on a major topic of the history of the Indian
subcontinent. The volume will, without doubt, become the textbook of choice for this subject." Barbara D.
Metcalf, Asian Thought and Society

"...a readable, expanded narrative history of the Mughal Empire from its foundation in 1526 to the onset of
its decline in the early eighteenth century. It is written and organized in the familiar Cambridge History style,
and will serve as a suitable standard reference for general Mughal political history." Richard Foltz, Harvard
Middle East and Islamic Review

From the Back Cover

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern world history. It was
founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the
entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. As well as military success,
the Mughal emperors displayed immense wealth and the ceremonies, etiquette, music, poetry, and
exquisitely executed paintings and objects of the imperial court fused together to create a distinctive
aristocratic high culture. In this volume, Professor John Richards traces the history of this magnificent
empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. He stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial
expansion, their institutional innovation in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological
change, and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. Professor Richards also analyzes institutions
particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early
modern world. The Mughal Empire offers a concise and up-to-date synthesis of this spectacular period in the
history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian
history and civilization and will be of interest to travellers wishing to know more about the background to
the great Mughal monuments.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.

Fine Survey; 4.5 Stars
By R. Albin
A fine survey of the great Mughal Empire, one of the "gunpowder empires" that developed across Eurasia in
the early modern period. This book contains 2 major strands; the basic narrative history of the Empire, and
the development of the Mughal state and its impact on Indian society. Richards presents these strands in a
series of chapters alternating between narratives of the reigns of the Mughal Emperors and more topical
chapters examining the nature of the Mughal state, economic, and some social history. The latest and
arguably most successful in a series of invaders from Islamic central Asia, the Mughals were the inheritors of
prior Indo-Muslim states in north India and a sophisticated Islamo-Persian political tradition. The Mughal
founder, Babur, benefited from intelligent use of firearms combined with heavy cavalry.

Richards has an excellent series of analyses of the development and nature of the Mughal state. The early
Mughal Emperors, particularly the highly intelligent (and illiterate) Akbar combined existing political
traditions and some innovations to develop a relatively centralized state with formidable military and fiscal
power. One key feature of the mature Mughal state was a cosmopolitan service nobility comprised of central
Asians, Persians, Indo-Muslims, and Hindus. Somewhat in parallel was a sophisticated bureaucracy, staffed
mainly by Hindus, able to consistently raise impressive amounts of revenue through direct taxation. Richards
stresses that the Mughal bureaucracy penetrated in important ways to the local level and restricted, though
incompletely, the power of local magnates. The Mughals had a considerable positive economic impact on
India. Their success brought peace to much of India and they generally pursued policies aimed at economic
expansion. These policies undoubtedly contributed to considerable population growth, agricultural
expansion, increasing regional and inter-regional trade, and proto-industrialization. The Mughal tax system,
which demanded specie, contributed significantly to the monetarization and marketization of the Indian
economy. An interesting complement to the Mughal domestic economic expansion was considerable
expansion of international trade, much by Europeans dominating the Indian Ocean. A great deal of the
precious metals needed for Mughal currency was imported from the western hemisphere.

The linchpin of the Mughal system was the Imperial Court. The whole system depended on capable
leadership from the center and the Mughals benefited from a series of very capable Emperors. The
importance of Imperial leadership is illustrated also by Richards' description of the decline of the Empire in
the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The last great Emperor, Aurangzeb, was a capable and conscientious
leader but also a pious Muslim whose pursuit of orthodoxy had a negative impact on the legitimacy of the
regime and relationships with Hindu aristocrats. The Mughal state was also built around conquest and
expansion. Aurangzeb's unremitting pursuit of conquest in South India led to draining wars with pronounced
negative effects. Typical of central Asian descended dynasties, the Mughals never developed a clear
succession mechanism and each succession resulted in a civil war among Imperial princes. Coupled with
other stresses, the final succession war fatally compromised the power of the Imperial court and resulted in
an India comprised of a set of regional successor states. This was the chronically divided and conflict
plagued subcontinent that permitted opportunistic European conquest.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful.

concise information about the mughal empire
By A Customer
This book is an excellent source of information about the mughal dynasty. It is written in a chronological
manner and hence, easy to read and follow even for the novice user to this subject. The author has stuck to
the main theme of the lives of the emperors themselves, their artistic contribution to India and the people that
influenced them. The facts about the emperors especially Jahangir, Shahjahan , the Rajput kings, Shivaji's
greatness and Shambhaji's misadventures makes it an interesting read. I feel that this book brings forth the
facts that are not widely known or mentioned in school history books that brings forth some suprises and
hence makes it an interesting read.

20 of 38 people found the following review helpful.

An excellent survey marred by too little attention to women
By A Customer
Dr. Richards' otherwise excellent book about the Mughal Empire is marred by his failure to pay very much
attention to its women. Gulbadan is mentioned but once, Jodh Bai, Shah Jahan's mother, not at all, Nur Jahan
and Mumtaz Mahal only peripherally. Are the Mughal chronicles themselves similarly silent about these
women? Since Gulbadan wrote her own, one must say no.

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"This is a succinct, readable, and comprehensible summary of one of the most important eras in India's
history....It should become the major text on Mughal history." Choice

"Richards's volume fills an important gap. Until now there has been no basic narrative, political history of
the Mughal empire....Richards's approach has the virtue of integrating a great deal of the newest research into
a familiar framework....His clear and concise synthesis of the new scholarship on the Mughal empire in India
provides a context for the student and a point of departure for all subsequent scholarly work in the field."
American Historical Review

"...a clearly written, intelligent synthesis of scholarship on a major topic of the history of the Indian
subcontinent. The volume will, without doubt, become the textbook of choice for this subject." Barbara D.
Metcalf, Asian Thought and Society

"...a readable, expanded narrative history of the Mughal Empire from its foundation in 1526 to the onset of
its decline in the early eighteenth century. It is written and organized in the familiar Cambridge History style,
and will serve as a suitable standard reference for general Mughal political history." Richard Foltz, Harvard
Middle East and Islamic Review

From the Back Cover

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern world history. It was
founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the
entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. As well as military success,
the Mughal emperors displayed immense wealth and the ceremonies, etiquette, music, poetry, and
exquisitely executed paintings and objects of the imperial court fused together to create a distinctive
aristocratic high culture. In this volume, Professor John Richards traces the history of this magnificent
empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. He stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial
expansion, their institutional innovation in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological
change, and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. Professor Richards also analyzes institutions
particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early
modern world. The Mughal Empire offers a concise and up-to-date synthesis of this spectacular period in the
history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian
history and civilization and will be of interest to travellers wishing to know more about the background to
the great Mughal monuments.

The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History Of India) By John F. Richards As a matter of fact,
publication is actually a home window to the world. Even lots of people may not appreciate reading books;
the books will certainly consistently offer the specific info about fact, fiction, experience, journey, politic,
religion, and a lot more. We are below a site that provides compilations of books greater than the book store.
Why? We give you bunches of numbers of link to obtain guide The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge
History Of India) By John F. Richards On is as you require this The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge
History Of India) By John F. Richards You could discover this publication conveniently here.