This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of litera

Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-reg

"For decades, scholars have examined the Mughal Empire, South Asia's largest and most powerful pre-colonial empire, to measure the greatness of its political, i

Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state

Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they under