...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...

...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...

...Fritz Lehmann Three Mughal Poets: Mir. Sauda. Mir Hassan . By Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1968 . xxii , 290 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 892 JOURNAL...

...Andrew de la Garza Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India . By Pratyay Nath . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xli, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780199495559 (cloth). Water and the Environmental History of Modern India . By Velayutham Saravanan...

...Catherine B. Asher Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories, The Cleveland Museum of Art . Edited by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla with Dominique DeLuca . London : D. Giles Limited , 2016 . 386 pp., 400 color illustrations. ISBN: 9781907804892 (cloth). Copyright...

...Abhishek Kaicker The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India . By Supriya Gandhi . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2020 . 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674987296 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Writing to his acolyte Jadunath...

...Madhuri Desai Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture . By Santhi Kavuri-Bauer . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2011 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9780822348993 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...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 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...

...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...

...J. H. Broomfield The Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556–1707) . By Irfan Habib . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . ix, 453. n.p. Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959 . By F. G. Bailey . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1963 . xii, 241...

...Manan Ahmed Asif A Short History of the Mughal Empire . By Michael Fisher . London : I.B. Tauris , 2015 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781848858725 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 1...

...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...

...Norman P. Ziegler; Richard Saran The Rajput Rebellion against Aurangzeb: A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth Century India . By Robert C. Hallissey . Columbia and London : University of Missouri Press , 1977 . xi, 119 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $ 11.50...

...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 ©...

...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...

... 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...

...Katherine Butler Brown Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World . By Ruby Lal . Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . xv , 241 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007...

... the period of the Mughals (pp. 230–31). The next chapters introduce us first to the extraordinary poet and litterateur Keshavdas of Orccha who is representative of the new Brajbhasha kavikul after which we are led into a study of the aesthetics of rīti literature itself and the Brajbhasha...

...Perween Hasan Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development (1526–1858) . By Ebba Koch . Munich : Prestel-Verlag , 1991 . 160 pp. $25.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1300 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES periodicity and mobility...