Exploring medieval India : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / edited by Meena Bhargava.

v. 1. Politics, economy, religion -- v. 2. Culture, gender, regional patterns.

Contents
List of Figures, Map andChart vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
MeenaBhargava 1
SECTION ONE: LEGITIMACY, AUTHORITY, CONSOLIDATION
L Shari'a, Akhlaq and Governance
Muzaffar Alam 43
2. Diplomacy and Diplomatic Procedure under the Mughals
N. R. Farooqi 91
3. Malik Ambar (1548-1626): The Rise And Fall Of
Military Slavery
Richard M. Eaton 121
4. Robes of Honour: A 'Transactional' Kingly Ceremony
Stewart Gordon 148
5. Akbar's Initial Encounters with the Chiefs:
Accident vs. Design in the Process of Subjugation
Ahsan Raza Khan 170
6. The Formulation of Imperial Authority under Akbar
and Jahangir
John F. Richards 183
SECTION TWO: AGRARIAN AND COMMERCIAL TRENDS
7. Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India
S.Nurul Hasan 227
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8. Conformity and Conflict: Tribes and the 'Agrarian System'
of Mughal India
Chetan Singh 259
9. Forests, People and State: Continuities and Changes
Meena Bhargava 287
10. Brokers in Western Indian Port Cities: Their Role in
Servicing Foreign Merchants
M. N. Pearson 307
11. Cooperation and Conflict among European Traders
in the Indian Ocean in the Late Eighteenth Century
OmPrakash 327
SECTION THREE: RELIGION, MOVEMENTS, DISPUTES
12. Akbar's Personality Traits and World Outlook:
ACritical Reappraisal
Iqtidar Alam Khan 353
Mdlenarianism from the TSagixutseteontthh-eCGenantugreys
Sanjay Subrahmanyarn V—y 14. ^rmation ofNaqshbandi Mysticism: Studying the
Major Writings of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
iqbal Sabir 15. Krishna's Dance and Devotion in the Temples of
Seventeenth-Century Bengal
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