Medieval India 2 : Essays in Medieval Indian History and Culture
Contents: Preface. I. History and Culture: 1. Social changes under the imperial Cholas and its reflections in later ages: a study/S. Chandni Bi. 2. Jahangir\'s relations with the contemporary Ulama and Sufis/Iqbal Sabir. 3. Dadu\'s relations with the rulers of His time/Shahabuddin Iraqi. 4. Life and culture in the Katehar Region under the Rohilla Chiefs during the eighteenth century/Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui. 5. Some Muslim patron saints of Hindu chiefs in North India and the impact of their interactions/Z.U. Malik. II. Politics, state administration: 6. Royal patronage of artisans of Kashmir under Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin (1420-1470)/Jigar Mohammad. 7. The concept of equality and the state and society in sixteenth-century Orissa/Amal Kumar Mishra. 8. Change and continuity in the prices in Bikaner from the close of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century/K.L. Mathur. 9. Indians in Iran in the eighteenth century/Surendra Gopal. 10. Indo-Persian Elites\' perception of the Western expansion in the East/Gulfishan Khan. 11. Zoological interest of the Mughals (With special reference to the Cheetah and the Rhinoceros)/M. Ehsan Akhtar. 12. Ethnic character of the army during the Delhi Sultanate (Thirteenth-Fourteenth centuries)/Ali Athar. 13. Military strategy of the Rajputs during the early medieval period/Rashmi Upadhyaya. 14. Some aspects of Persian influence on Mughal Painting under Akbar/Ashok Kumar Srivastava. 15. Shams Siraj Afif\'s Tarikh-i-Feroz Shahi: A source for the study of monuments of Delhi built during Feroz Shah Tughlaq\'s reign/S.M. Azizuddin Husain. III. Economy: 16. Administration of Jagirs in Malwa in Mid-Seventeenth century: the Dhar documents/Syed Bashir Hasan. 17. Sasan Grants under the Rathor Chiefs of Marwar: a case study of Maharaja Jaswant Singh (1638-1678)/R.S. Sangwan. 18. Baburvani: a historical perspective/M.S. Ahluwalia. 19. The house of Asad Khan/Mohd. Afzal Khan. 20. Udai Sagar: a sixteenth century dam in Rajasthan/B.L. Bhadani. IV. Book reviews: 21. Ziaduddin Barani\'s Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi/Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui. 22. Sunil Kumar\'s The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate (1192-1286)/Shahabuddin Iraqi. 23. An eighteenth century history of North India/Iqbal Sabir. 24. S. Liyaqat Husain Moini\'s The Chishti Shrine of Ajmer: Pirs, Pilgrims and Practices/S.M. Azizuddin Husain. 25. Muzaffar Alam\'s The Languages of Political Islam in India, c. 1200-1800/Syed Bashir Hasan. List of contributors.
"This volume offers varied but comprehensive studies relating to medieval Indian history and culture from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. Based on extensive use of contemporary sources (including hitherto unknown), the essays focus on political, social, economic and cultural issues both at macroscopic and microscopic levels.
The volume has twenty essays, contributed by scholars associated with the Centre of Advanced Study (History), Aligarh Muslim University as well as those who belong to other institutions in the country. The concluding section of the volume consists of five reviews of recent books on medieval Indian history." (jacket)
