Taking the hunt as both metaphor of rule and political practice, this paper compares the predatory exercises of two imperial formations in India: the late British Raj and the sixteenth-century Mughal empire. The British pursuit of man-eaters confronted feline terror with sovereign might, securing the bodies and hearts of resistant subjects through spectacles of responsible force. The Mughal hun...

Previous methods for extracting attributes (e.g., capital, population) of classes (Empires) from Web documents or search queries assume that relevant attributes occur verbatim in the source text. The extracted attributes are short phrases that correspond to quantifiable properties of various instances (ottoman empire, roman empire, mughal empire) of the class. This paper explores the extraction...

amir seyyed fathollah shirazi, a physician, historian and politician of indian mughal empire court, was one of the scholars of shiraz. initially, he served as a teacher at mansurieh school in shiraz. he worked for imamgholi mirza, the brother of king ismaeil ii, from safavid dynasty. after killing imamgholi mirza, by the order of the king, he went to india following the invitation of the muslim...

Political history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 The imperial structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 The social and economic framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 High culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 State and religion . ...

Urdu is a distinct literary language began to develop in India during Mughal empire. Lots of people read, write and speak, this language in Indian subcontinent. This brief article will shed light on the seven rare books in Urdu compiled and published in the period from 19th century to the first half of the current century. Some books may not have high value but the struggle of the scholars, is ...

The Indo-Persian state secretary has occupied center stage in the emerging discourse on bureaucracy, administration and the political formation of the Mughal state. The status and role of the munsh? (the IndoPersian state secretary) within the Mughal bureaucratic structure in 17th and 18th century have formed the basis of recent historical analysis. Scholarship on the Indo-Persian munsh? have b...

The period 1700 to 1900 saw the beginnings, and the development, of the British Empire in India. Empire was not planned, at least not in the early stages. In a sense, it just happened. The first British in India came for trade, not territory; they were businessmen, not conquerors. It can be argued that they came from a culture that was inferior, and a political entity that was weaker, than that...

Abstract In this article, Mughal understandings of their own past are reconstructed from the standpoint paramountcy in around 1700. That was moment empire's greatest territorial reach, when it knew no peer nor threat. To reconstruct contemporary how situation came about, histories empire composed by governing officials time analysed using a novel approach rooted particular distinction between c...

The fourteenth century of the Christian period was a time significant transition. social and political environment undergoing changes. Strong, centralized empires were erected in east, while middle classes west started to seek obtain part government. Islamic control thrived during this period, bringing people from all over globe together via trade business. There such powerful as Mongols, Ottom...

Until the middle eighteenth century, South India had been under the rule of the Mughal Empire. There were administrative units called magans which are almost equivalent to counties of today. In the late eighteenth century, the colonial policy was introduced by the British and the Mughal Empire had gradually lost its power in South India. To govern the area and collect taxes, the British appoint...