Mughal South Asia

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Mughal South Asia

• Styles of Kingship Administration

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I. Mughal South Asia 1526-1707

• Uzbekistan
• Timur
• Chingiz Khan
• Babur
• Humayun 1556
• Akbar 1556-1605
• Aurangzeb 1658-1707
• Early modern polities
• Maharashtra
• British East India Company

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II. Akbar Religious Patronage

• Ulama
• Chishti Sufis
• non-Muslim religious teachers
• Sufi saints

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From Akbar-Nama, a formal history of Akbars rule

• When the capital was illumined by the return of
  the Imperial presence, the old regulations came
  again into operation, and the house of wisdom
  shone resplendent on Friday nights with the light
  of holy minds. in that place of meeting the
  lamp was kindled to brighten the solitude of
  seclusion and the merits of the philosophers of
  the colleges and monasteries were put to the
  test Sufis, doctors, preachers, lawyers, Sunnis,
  Shiias, Brahmans, Jains, Buddhists, Charvakas,
  Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and learned men of
  every belief were gathered together in the royal
  assembly the disputations and contentions were
  long and heated.

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III. Sufi Tombs

• pilgrimage tours and state visits
• Nizammudin Auliya at Delhi
• high culture
• protective power
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Agra

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IV. Akbar Administration

• Creating-periphery ties
• Non-Muslim Muslim high office holders
• Akbars marriage
• Punjab
• Land grants
• Land surveys and tax systems
• Zamindars
• Power on the move

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V. The Challenge of Bengal

• Agriculture
• Maritime trade
• Center-periphery distance
• Army of dependencies

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the high-ranking regional administrator
received the Imperial commands to put aside his
work of punishing the rebels of Bihar, and to
devote his energies to the conquest of Bengal.
By good fortune, the rebels of Bihar had been put
to flight before the arrival of the Imperial
forces. But the rainy season came on, and the
campaign was deferred for that year. When the
rains subsided, the chosen noble military
leaders took their departure from Court.
Officers were also sent bydifferent roads to all
the chiefs of Illahabas, Oudh, and Bihar. In a
short time a large force was collected and was
eager for the advance.
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