₨ 7,188
ISBN: 0863563813
Publisher: SAQI BOOKS
Subtitle:
Author: FRED HALLIDAY
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| Weight | 0.66 kg |
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| ISBN | 0863563813 |
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| Publication Date | 2002 |
| Pages | 540 |
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The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers-Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb-who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.
ISBN: 9789696402770
ISBN: 9789696402770
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: DARA SHUKOH IN MUGHAL INDIA
Author: SUPRIYA GANDHI
ISBN: 0226561410
Publisher: CHICAGO
Subtitle: A HISTORY OF THE HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A RETROSPECTIVE ESSAY
Author: WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
ISBN: 0002152177 – Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
ISBN: Z1500
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: THE CONQUEST AND ADMINISTRATION OF MULTAN
Author: J. ROYAL ROSEBE
ISBN: 0393003817 – Paperback
Publisher: NORTON & COMPANY
ISBN: 0393003817
Publisher: NORTON & COMPANY
Subtitle:
Author: ULRICH WILCKEN
A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
ISBN: 0826479332
Publisher: CONTINUUM INTERNATIONAL
Subtitle:
Author: C. K. STEAD
‘Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions’ gives a complete account of the meeting and mingling of Western and Eastern traditions, which has characterized the history of religion in the 20th century. It is a well structured book which is thought provoking and offers much more than more collection of data.
ISBN: 8182749786
Publisher: PENTAGON PRESS
Subtitle: 20TH CENTURY WESTERN ENCOUNTERS WITH EASTERN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Author: HARRY OLDMEADOW
Millions of children in Pakistan live short and painful lives, suffering the worst forms of exploitation and neglect. Such injustice is often explained away as a direct result of the abject poverty in which their families live.
Yet lethargic legislatures, uncaring judges and poor planning by the state must share in the guilt of ignoring the pains and rights of such children. This book sets out to put the record straight. It argues that approaches to the question of child prisoners should require a totally new, care-oriented discipline, especially where legal rights are concerned.
The book examines the extent to which laws are actually applied in practice. Recommendations are then offered to correct the deficiencies in the system. An added bonus for lawyers and human rights organizations involved in the defense for children’s rights is the inclusion of eleven thoroughly updated appendices containing all relevant laws and amendments.
ISBN: 9694021316
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: CHILD PRISONERS OF PAKISTAN
Author: ASMA JAHANGIR
