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An Early Modern South Asian Thinker on the Rise and Decline of Empires: Sh h Wal All h of Delhi, the Mughals, and the Byzantines

Vasileios Syros, Finnish Center of Political Thought , and Conceptual Change/ , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin In the eighteenth century, Wes…

Evolution of the Mughal Political Structure: Re-evaluating Contributions of Humayun

Dr. Gulrukh Khan The totalizing effect of the modern studies based on contemporary accounts has been to present before the posterity the reign of…

Asoka and Aurangzaib: More alike than different

By Yasser Latif Hamdani There are only two instances in the subcontinent’s history that universal Pan-Indian political unity was achieved. The …

Institutionalisation of Cult of Personality- Emperor Akbar

Bhavyansh Mathur, University of Delhi ‘’Almighty god! What a profound thought and glorious idea it is that the subtle apprehendors of truth, whose b…

The True Founder of the Timurid Empire in India

By: Saif Beg Bairam Beg, also known by his title of Khan-i-Khanan, was one of the most prominent men of the early Timurid period in India especial…

Political Unification under the Mughals

Kapil Kumar The Mughal Empire or Mogul Empire , self-designated as Gurkani (meaning "son-in law") was an empire based in the Indian Subcont…

Diplomacy, Dominance and Deference: The Foreign Relations of the Mughals with other Islamic Powers in Asia

“The agony of International Relations is the need to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order” -Bernard Crick [1] INTRODU…

ORIENTAL DESPOTISM AND MUGHAL IMPERIAL IDEALS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS*

Dr. Faraz Anjum Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of the Punjab, Lahore Email: faraz@history.pu.edu.pk This research pap…

The Ottoman Expansion and the Portuguese Response in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1560

(Chapter VI in Pius Malekandathil, Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean , Primus Books, New Delhi, 2010, pp. 110-130) The O…

Akbar the Great (1542–1605) and Christianity. Between religion and politics

By: Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś ( Jagiellonian University in Krakow) The second half of the 16th century, during the reign of India’s third, and …