Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals Delhi Sultanat (1526-1761): Part 2 (Hindi) | मध्यकालीन भारत: सल्तनत से मुगल काल तक दिल्ली सल्तनत (1526 -1761) (हिंदी)

Author: SATISH CHANDRA

Brand: HAR-ANAND PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD

Edition: 1

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 640

Release Date: 23-10-2024

Part Number: 2

Details: The present work brings to completion the author’s work From Sultanat to the Mughals, a volume devoted to the Delhi Sultanat having been published earlier. Tracing the rise and fall of the Mughal empire upto 1761, an attempt has been made to probe the basis on which the Mughals mobilized support for themselves and the nature of the polity they evolved. The societal, economic, political, administrative and ideological challenges faced by an essentially liberal polity and the role of Aurangzeb have been carefully analyzed. The author contends that if a regional balance of power based on states with different social structure had been stabilised, some parts of India could under favourable circumstances, have moved in the direction of capitalism. Satish Chandra (b. 1922) his book “Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court 1707-40”, and subsequent researches helped to give a new shape to Indian history after independence. He was Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Vice Chairman and Chairman, University Grants Commission (1973-81). He taught at the Universities of Allahabad, Aligarh Muslim, Delhi and Rajasthan. He was Smuts’ Visiting Professor, Cambridge University (1971), and associated with many national and international agencies. He was Secretary and later President, Indian History Congress (1973), Council Member, United Nations University, Tokyo (1980-86), Associate Director of Research, Maison des Sciences de I’Homme, Paris; Member, Executive Board, International Congress of Historical Sciences, Paris, etc. He was also Chairman of the Committee to review Civil Services Examination in Delhi. He had written and edited many books on Medieval Indian History, and the Indian Ocean History and published a large number of research articles in national and international journals. Some of these have been brought together and published in three monographs and in the Essays on Medieval Indian History. He was Executive Chairman Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies. Presently, he is Secretary-General, Society for Indian Ocean Studies and the Secretary of the twelve volume Comprehensive History of India Scheme prepared by the Indian History Congress.

EAN: 9788119798407

Package Dimensions: 3.8 x 3.1 x 2.4 inches

Languages: Hindi