7. The Making of a Munshī

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction: The Old and the New in Mughal Historiography 1
7. 1. Letters from a Sinking Sultan 33
8. 2. The Mughals Look Beyond the Winds 88
9. 3. On the End of the Akbari Dispensation 123
10. 4. The Deccan Frontier and Mughal Expansion, Circa 1600 165
11. 5. Faizi’s Nal-Daman and Its Long Afterlife 204
12. 6. Catholics and Muslims in the Court of Jahangir 249 (1608–1611) 249
13. 7. The Making of a Munshī 311
14. 8 .Trade and Politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700–1732) 339
15. 9. Eighteenth-Century Historiography and the World of the Mughal Munshī 396
16. 10. The Political Thought of a Late-Eighteenth-Century Mughal Prince 429
17. Epilogue: Mughals in Exile 467
18. Index 485