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9780198077411 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 28, 2012), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south...read more
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9780231158107 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south.

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9780231158114 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south.

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Product Description: This first book to fully explore the opulent art and refined lifestyle of Lucknow showcases cultural diversity at its most magnificent.Lucknow was a cosmopolitan Indo-Islamic-European capital in northern India that flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...read more
By Muzaffar Alam (contributor), Rosemary Crill (contributor), Tushara Bindu Gude, Stephen Markel and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (contributor)
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9783791350752 | Prestel Pub, December 30, 2010, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This first book to fully explore the opulent art and refined lifestyle of Lucknow showcases cultural diversity at its most magnificent.

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Product Description: Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800. The first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama), it links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact...read more
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9780521780414 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800.

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9780521129558 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 4, 2010), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800.

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Product Description: This book offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European constructions of India. It throws significant light on Indo-Persian culture and on the complex interaction between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth century.
By Muzaffar Alam (trans) and Seema Alavi (trans)
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9780195649802 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The period following the death of Aurangzeb has usually been viewed from the perspective of the decline and subsequent decay of the Mughal empire.

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9780195691870, titled "A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $24.00 | also contains An European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I'Jaz-I Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier | About this edition: This book offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European constructions of India.

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Product Description: The Languages of Political Islam illuminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its arrival in India in the twelfth century through its height as the ruling theology to its decline, adapted to its new cultural context to become "Indianized...read more
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9780226011004 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The Languages of Political Islam illuminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its arrival in India in the twelfth century through its height as the ruling theology to its decline, adapted to its new cultural context to become "Indianized.

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9780226011011 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Languages of Political Islam illuminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its arrival in India in the twelfth century through its height as the ruling theology to its decline, adapted to its new cultural context to become "Indianized.

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Product Description: The 16 essays that make up this volume were originally presented at a seminar 'The Evolution of Medieval Indian Culture: the Indo-Persian Context', held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli on 14-16 February 1994. The first part on 'Political Institutions and Ideas', is a reflection on the political ideology of Indo-Persian empires...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9788173042102 | Manohar Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: The 16 essays that make up this volume were originally presented at a seminar 'The Evolution of Medieval Indian Culture: the Indo-Persian Context', held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli on 14-16 February 1994.

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Contributed articles. (view table of contents)
By Muzaffar Alam (editor) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (editor)
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9780195639056 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contributed articles.

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Product Description: The collapse of the Mughal empire has often been characterized as a period of political fragmentation, social unrest, and economic decay. Contrasting two regions in north India--Awadh and the Punjab--Muzaffar Alam contends that even as the empire declined, there emerged a new, regionally-based political order, maintained and controlled by former Mughal rulers...read more
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9780195618921 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The collapse of the Mughal empire has often been characterized as a period of political fragmentation, social unrest, and economic decay.

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9780195630008 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The collapse of the Mughal empire has often been characterized as a period of political fragmentation, social unrest, and economic decay.

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