Ebba Koch, ed., in collaboration with Ali Anooshahr, The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan, Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, 2019, 320 pp, Illustrations and Maps, Index and Glossary, ISBN 978-93-83243-26-6.
Year: 2021
Type: book-review
Abstract: Davis) andas the preface makes plain -Robert McChesney have created an informative, innovative and inspiring volume on the reigns of the two Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan of the first half of the seventeenth century.In the company of twelve contributors, experts in their respective fields, they put together a multidisciplinary volume on two historical protagonists that shaped the Mughal Empire after Akbar (r.1556-1605) and before Aurangzeb (r.1658-1707).As Ebba Koch states herself in the introduction to the volume, previous scholarship has mostly concentrated on those two figures.One feels compelled to add that they have often been popularised as the "tolerant" and "inclusive" Akbar and the "orthodox" and "narrow-minded" Aurangzeb, the hero and the villain, of the familiar Mughal cast.The volume is a welcome
Source: Der Islam
Author: Christopher D. Bahl
Institution: Durham University
Language: English
Topic: Islamic Studies and History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3205028672