...Andre Wink Unbroken Landscape: Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500 . By Frank Perlin . Aldershot, Hampshire : Variorum, Ashgate Publishing , 1994 . xiv, 315 pp $89.95 (cloth). Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India...

...Philip B. Calkins The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb . By M. Athar Ali New York : Asia Publishing House , 1966 . xi, 295 pp. Tables, Appendix, Index, Errata, Abbreviations. $7.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 716 The Japanese City: A Sociological...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects . Edited by James L. Wescoat Jr , and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn . Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, volume 16. Washington : Dumbarton Oaks , 1996 . 288 pp. $60.00 (cloth...

...Richard M. Eaton The New Cambridge History of India, vol. 1, book 4, Architecture of Mughal India . By Catherine B. Asher . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xxxi, 368 pp. $84.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Joseph E. Schwartzberg An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps . By Irfan Habib . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1982 . xvii, 120 pp. 60 Maps. $69. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 567 contrary to what one might...

...Aditi Chandra Mughal Architecture and Gardens . By George Michell and Amit Pasricha . Martlesham, Suffolk : Antique Collectors Club , 2011 . xx, 402 pp. $89.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Sumptuously illustrated with panoramic...

...Gregory C. Kozlowski The Formation of the Mughal Empire . By Douglas E. Streusand . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1989 . 206 pp. Rs. 175.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 726 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES at the beginning, with Roshan Dalal's...

... from Mughal rule over Bengal and large parts of India during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The paper seeks to historicize and contextualize the shifts noticeable in these narratives and to engage with the notion that premodern, precolonial India lacked a sense of history molded...

...Purnima Dhavan Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court . By Audrey Truschke . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . 384 pp. ISBN: 9780231173629 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 In Culture of Encounters...

... evang­ e­liz­ing to Budd­ hists. And at the same time, their ef­forts, in a coun­try where the pop­ul­a­tion is about 90 per­cent Budd­ hist, © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 The Brush of Insight: Artist and Agency at the Mughal Court . By Yael Rice . Seattle : University...

... compellingly illuminating of "the ratiocinative art of ambivalence" (p. 208) that characterizes the fire cult and related rituals of the Vedic world. Bachelard would find his dialectics of fire persuasively illustrated in its pages. LAURIE PATTON Bard College Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History...

...Sajida S. Alvi Notes from a Distant Flute: The Extant Literature of Pre-Mughal Indian Sufism . By Bruce B. Lawrence . Tehran : Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy , 1978 . 123 pp. Bibliography, Index. $13.95. (Distributed by Great Eastern Book Co., Colorado.) Copyright ©...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Abstract With some exaggeration, one could claim that these three biographies, despite their disparate subjects—a seventeenth-century aristocratic lady of the Mughal court, an eighteenth-century French adventurer, and a twentieth-century Muslim intellectual and political figure...

...Douglas E. Streusand The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574–1658) . By M. Athar Ali . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1985 . (Center of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University) xl, 378 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index...

...Benjamin Rowland, Jr The Art of Nepal . By Stella Kramrisch . New York : The Asia Society , 1964 . (Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) 159. n.p. The Art of Mughal India: Painting and Precious Objects . Introduction by Stuart C. Welch . New York : The Asia Society, Inc...

...Lisa Balabanlilar Abstract The founders of India's Mughal Empire were the last surviving remnants of the Timurid-Mongol ruling elite, descendants of Timur and Chingis Khan, for whom the traditions and institutions of Central Asia were universally recognized and potent symbols of cultural prowess...

...Philip B. Calkins Mughal Empire in India: A Systematic Study Including Source Material . Second Revised Edition . By S. R. Sharma . Agra : Lakshmi Narain Agarwal , 1966 . (Original Edition, 1934 .) 655 pp. Bibliography, Addenda. Rs. 20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Philip B. Calkins The Mughal Emperor Humayun . By Rama Shanker Avasthy . Allahabad : History Department, University of Allahabad , 1967 . 491 pp. Appendix, Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 623 of internal cohesion...

...Stephen Frederic Dale The Shah Jahan Nama . Edited by W. E. Begley and Z. A. Desai . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1990 . 624 pp., 48 plates. Rs. 575.00. Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources . Edited...

...M. N. Pearson Abstract The decline of the Mughal empire is usually considered to begin late in the reign of the emperor Aurangzib (1658–1707). The favorite explanations consist of circles, or even spirals, usually vicious in nature. One important interpretation sees the decline as originating from...