A History of India, Third Edition

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE The great advantage of the system—its largely automatic operation— proved to be a most da ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Akbar’s last years were embittered by the rebellion of his son Salim, the later Great Mug ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE But Shah Jahan was not satisfied with setting the style for India, he also wanted the old ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Deccan, Aurangzeb had constructed a rather top-heavy system there. In the north, the rati ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE mountain fortresses and paid Aurangzeb his respects at his court, which was then still in ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE shunned all pomp and splendour—austere as he had been in his lifetime, he wanted to rest ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE around became as much of a threat to the Mughals as the light cavalry of the Marathas. Th ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Together these two men could have prevented Nadir Shah’s incursion from Persia into India ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE with the exception of the naval battle of 1508, in which combined Gujarati and Egyptian f ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE respect, too. In addition to their stronghold in Goa, they established outposts at Daman ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE him an assured income. Private merchants could cut in on this trade under a royal lease, ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE defeat by Humayun, was an isolated incident. Once Akbar had reconquered Gujarat in 1574 a ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE information from whatever source. They also already had a huge merchant marine engaged in ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE later he was sent to London to defend the Dutch claim to the exclusive control of the Ind ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE to an ever-increasing extent. If these merchants did not have ships of their own they wer ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE efficient than the rather cumbersome Dutch hierarchy, and this is why finally even people ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE A French viceroy, De la Haye, appeared with a fleet of nine ships off the coast of India ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE minister Robert Walpole, and in France the regime of Cardinal Fleury produced a similar a ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ports of the Arabian Sea. Even the British governor of Bombay envied him because he was a ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE armed ships and fortified factories were able to insulate themselves—very well indeed. Mo ...