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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 356–361.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sohini Sarah Pillai Abstract Inspired by Allison Busch's pioneering scholarship on Bhasha (Old Hindi) literature associated with the Mughal court, this article explores the manuscript history of a seventeenth-century Bhasha text that repeatedly praises the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 3–19.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of the
Sufi/syncretistic imperialism of Akbar to the high-imperial revenues of the stateall these contributed in a great
ideology of the Middle East, where themes and ideas from measure to advance the prosperity of his empire.141
ancient empires (Mesopotamian, Persian, and Jewish, and in Aurangzeb...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam . London : Hurst , 2014 . Faisal Devji • Made in India: History without the State • Kitabkhana 345
MADE IN INDIA like Aurangzeb remained...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 61–72.
Published: 01 August 2004
... a respectable place in Mughal belles-lettres.26 The
yastha, in AH 1115 (1703–4), late in Aurangzeb’s Mughal emperors themselves had shown the way, for
reign.23 This work is mostly concerned with fiscal man- Babur had authored one such text (in Chaghatay Turk-
agement: its three central chapters concern key...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 361–368.
Published: 01 August 2016
... influence in the commission had declined
Sarkar was an important scholar of two histori-
and was eclipsed in the new institutional dispensa-
cal figures — the Mughal king Aurangzeb and his
tion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 226–229.
Published: 01 May 2019
... Aurangzeb, who, along with the theologian Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, is conventionally seen as the forerunner of a distinctive Muslim polity in the subcontinent, glorifying instead his Afghan enemy Khushhal Khan Khattak. Indeed, like Jinnah, with whom he also shared a background in petty trade that placed both...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 334–340.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Goswamy and J. S. Grewal attests to four generations of Mughal patronage for the Nath yogis at Jakhbar, with a still extant letter from Aurangzeb to the mahant (abbot) of the Nath monastery requesting quicksilver. 26 Akbar is known to have gifted a madad-i-ma'ash (land grant) to the yogis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-emperor Aurangzeb
tioning of the empire.35 The annual inspection of (r. 1658–1707), dressed in armor and mounted on
the muster rolls of horses, for example, was timed his rearing horse caparisoned for battle.42 Aside
to coincide with auspicious, often festal, occasions from the painting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 May 1996
... of Emperor Aurangzeb beginning literary canon with one of its indisputable master-
with the decapitation of his rival Dara Shikuh, pieces, Padmavat.2 Less well-known yet are its many
popularly held to be a liberal sympathetic to Hindus. Persian retellings during the course of the next two...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 355–361.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the new institutional dispensa-
cal figures — the Mughal king Aurangzeb and his
tion of the postcolonial era when the commission
adversary, the Maratha king Shivaji. Both these
was converted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 335–337.
Published: 01 August 2016
... put him
in trouble with Muslims for his representation of
Aurangzeb, but neither did his arguments about THE MESSY CAREER OF HISTORICISM
Shivaji endear him to the powerful group of ama- Reflections from the Middle East
teur historians in Maharashtra. Yoav Di-Capua...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 62–68.
Published: 01 August 1991
... in reimposed it and
reabolished it in 1579 since when it stayed abollshed for a century
of all governments in the states from Punjab to West until Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) reimposed it in 1679. It was once
Bengal; in 1971 the Congress was swept back...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 289–292.
Published: 01 August 2022
... encompassed unique ideas of kingship. Sohini Sarah Pillai examines manuscripts of Sabalsingh Chauhan's Mahabharat , produced in the early to mid-eighteenth century, to trace how they remember (and not) the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Julie Vig reads Gurbilās literature from the eighteenth to early nineteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 362–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., Poetry of Kings , 8 . 11. Pollock, Language of the Gods , 400 . 12. Dhavan, When Sparrows Became Hawks ; Rinehart, Debating the Dasam Granth ”; Murphy, “Thinking beyond Aurangzeb” ; Murphy, “Punjabi in the (Late) Vernacular Millennium” ; Fenech, Darbar of the Sikh Gurus...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 310–329.
Published: 01 August 2018
... . New Delhi : Global Media , 2006 .
Khan
M. F.
“ Three Grants of the Time of Aurangzeb from Kota District .” EIAPS ( 1969 ): 69 – 77 .
Klein
Martin A.
, ed. Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia . Madison : University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 53–56.
Published: 01 May 1994
... been erected by I have seen the best brains of the
Aurangzeb on the dismantled temple of Vis- twentieth century walking naked on the
veshw araya. Varanasi, being the Mecca of Hindu- streets of Varanasi.
ism, the Sangh Parivar calculates that an action in Varanasi is very different from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 10–15.
Published: 01 August 1996
.... They went on through
after the death of the Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 the North Western Frontier area and established an
was followed by a long period of decline and degen- Islamic state in a village called Sittana. Their war
eration of the Muslim ruling class. What was once a against the Sikhs...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 549–569.
Published: 01 December 2017
...- ishmand Khan s intellectual circle in Delhi and ac- quired a high rank in the court of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. By the time of his death around 1670, Yazdi had circulated across Safavid Iran, the Dec- can, and Mughal Hindustan. While traveling, he encountered other émigrés such as his adventurer- patron...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
...-century Brahmaputra Valley? The eighteenth century in South Asia was a period of immense possibilities, especially with respect to political culture. Following the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (d. 1707) and subsequent weakening of the Mughal state, several claimants to political power...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 337–344.
Published: 01 August 2016
.../1089201x-3603404
the central features of The Calling. At the time,
Sarkar’s commitments to historical truth put him
in trouble with Muslims for his representation of
Aurangzeb, but neither did his arguments about THE MESSY CAREER OF HISTORICISM
Shivaji endear him to the powerful group of ama...
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