TY - BOOK AU - Athar Ali,M. TI - Mughal India: studies in polity, ideas, society, and culture SN - 9780195696615 (pbk.) U1 - 954.024 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Mogul Empire KW - Civilization KW - History KW - India N1 - Includes bibiography and index; ANTECEDENTS 1. The Islamic Background to Indian History: An Interpretation of the Islamic Past 2. Encounter and Efflorescence: The Genesis of the Medieval Civilization 3. Nobility under Muhammad Tughluq 4. Capital of the Sultans: Delhi during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 5. The Punjab between the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries FORMATION OFTHE EMPIRE 6. Towards an Interpretation of the Mughal Empire 7. The Pre-colonial Social Structure and the Polity of the Mughal Empire 8. The Mughal Polity: A Critique of ’Revisionist’ Approaches 9. Political Structures of the Islamic Orient in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries POLITICAL THOUGHT 10. The Evolution of the Perception of India: Akbar and Abul FazI 11. The State in Islamic Thought in India ER -