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Author : B. P. Saha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Princesses, Begams, and Concubines written by B. P. Saha and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the Mogul Empire; biographical sketches.
Author : Dr. B. P. Saha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Begams, Concubines, and Memsahibs written by Dr. B. P. Saha and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Covers Eight Begums, Four Concubines And Five Memsahibs And Highlights Their Influence On Politics, Administration And Social Regeneration In Indian History.
Author : Soma Mukherjee
Publisher : Gyan Books
ISBN 13 : 9788121207607
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Royal Mughal Ladies and Their Contributions written by Soma Mukherjee and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study deals with the royal Mughal ladies in details and is concerned with their achievements and contributions which till today form a part of rich cultural heritage. It provides a detailed account of the life and contributions of the royal Mughal ladies from the times of Babar to Aurangzeb's, with special emphasis on the most prominent among them.
Author : Sabiha Huq
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894275
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Mughal Aviary: Women’s Writings in Pre-Modern India written by Sabiha Huq and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603), the youngest daughter of Emperor Babur, Jahanara (1614-1681), the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638-1702), the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb, belonged to royalty. Thus, they were inhabitants of the Mughal 'zenana', an enigmatic liminal space of qualified autonomy and complex equations of gender politics. Amidst such constructs, Gulbadan Begam’s 'Humayun-Nama' (biography of her half-brother Humayun, reflecting on the lives of Babur’s wives and daughters), Jahanara’s hagiographies glorifying Mughal monarchy, and Zeb-un-Nissa’s free-spirited poetry that landed her in Aurangzeb’s prison, are discursive literary outputs from a position of gendered subalternity. While the subjective selves of these women never much surfaced under extant rigid conventions, their indomitable understanding of ‘home-world’ antinomies determinedly emerge from their works. This monograph explores the political imagination of these Mughal women that was constructed through statist interactions of their royal fathers and brothers, and how such knowledge percolated through the relatively cloistered communal life of the 'zenana'. The fourth woman, Habba Khatoon (1554-1609), famously known as ‘the Nightingale of Kashmir’, offers an interesting counterpoint to her royal peers. As a common woman who married into royalty (her husband Yusuf Shah Chak was the ruler of Kashmir in 1579-1586), her happiness was short-lived with her husband being treacherously exiled by Emperor Akbar. Khatoon’s verse, which voices the pangs of separation, was that of an ascetic who allegedly roamed the valley, and is famed to have introduced the ‘lol’ (lyric) into Kashmiri poetry. Across genres and social positions of all these writers, this volume intends to cast hitherto unfocused light on the emergent literary sensibilities shown by Muslim women in pre-modern India.
Author : Krishna S. Dhir
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120843010
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Wonder That Is Urdu written by Krishna S. Dhir and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is a Developmental, social and cultural phenomenon. When Urdu started its literary journey, writing also treasured it and today we are proud of the great collection of Urdu books. Urdu lovers have also done a remarkable job in writing books on various topics and in conveying the standard writings to the Urdu circles by giving them solid ink. This book although written in English, is one such masterpiece by Krishna S. Dhir. However, it clearly reflects the love of the writer for the Urdu language and its literature. The beginning of this book is an excellent illustration of how the various apabhransha of South Asia interacted with Perso-Arabic and European languages, to give rise to various languages, including Urdu and how they grew up through the time of the Mughals and the British. How all the major religions of the world originated in the Asian continent and the observation of Sufis are highlighted in the second chapter of this book. The role of social and economic institutions and traditions in the evolution of Urdu has been shed light upon. Krishna S. Dhir has painstakingly elaborated upon the protest literature and extensively quoted Mir, Ghalib, Daagh Dehlvi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Faiz Ahmad, Ahmad Fraz and other poets to prove how Urdu poetry has been used to protest against siege, raids, imprisonment, imperialism and colonisation, and to express love and peace. Finally, the writer explores how Urdu is deployed by the diaspora that uses it.
Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300251270
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Vagabond Princess written by Ruby Lal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir "Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan's achievement.'"--Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's "un-Islamic" behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.
Author : Uttar Pradesh Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Journal written by Uttar Pradesh Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shadab Bano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040226817
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India written by Shadab Bano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic regimes’ treatment of slavery but not limited or determined by the actions and demands of the ruling class alone. Societies normalized the practices, and the norms were socially constituted, which included slaves’ acceptance, resistance, and use of agency in the process. It shows how the transformations on the ground made the social-economic and ethical environment of slavery no longer the same over the centuries and the expansion or contraction of slavery corresponded to the structural changes and ethical developments specific to the Indian milieu. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, history and slavery.
Author : Barbara N. Ramusack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139449087
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Indian Princes and their States written by Barbara N. Ramusack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their pre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks ground in its integration of political and economic developments in the major princely states with the shifting relationships between the princes and the British. It represents a major contribution, both to British imperial history in its analysis of the theory and practice of indirect rule, and to modern South Asian history, as a portrait of the princes as politicians and patrons of the arts.
Author : Tarana Husain Khan
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9393701644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book The Begum and the Dastan written by Tarana Husain Khan and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lined with grandeur, tragedy and fantasy, Tarana Husain Khan's odyssey maps the social, political and religious contours of 1897 Sherpur with the fascinating and strong-willed Feroza Begum at the centre of the storm. On an evening not too many evenings ago, the blue-eyed Feroza, flouting her family's orders, attended Nawab Shams Ali Khan's sawani celebrations at the Benazir Palace. Tragedy coloured the night when she found herself kidnapped and withheld in the Nawab's harem - bustling, tantalizing and rife with sinister power play. As tyranny and repression tightened their hold inside the royal walls, at the Bazaar Chowk, dastangoi Kallan Mirza enchanted his listeners with the legend of sorcerer Tareek Jaan and his chimeric city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women were confined in underground basements. Misfortune and subjugation link eras when Ameera, Feroza's great-granddaughter, is restricted to her house and finds solace in her Dadi's retelling of Feroza's tragedy. When Ameera's circumstances begin mirroring the strife and indignities pervasive in 1897 Sherpur, she must reflect if society has shifted enough for women and their choices. Written with careful flamboyance and striking evocativeness, The Begum and the Dastan is a world imbued with love, splendour and heartbreak, only saved by the women who refuse to play by the rule book.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Muslim World Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Subhadra Sen Gupta
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 938832255X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)
Download or read book MAHAL written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Despite what we would like to believe, the Mahal was not an exotic sexual playground; it was a family space. And the stories of these women, from queens and princesses to foster mothers and female officers, deserve to be heard.’ In every citadel of the Mughal Empire, there existed a luxurious fortress that housed the women of the court. Known as the ‘Mahal’, this closely-guarded space that few men could enter has intrigued the world for centuries. Uncovering the little-known lives of the remarkable women who inhabited the Mahal, this commanding narrative introduces us to Ehsan Daulat Begum, Babur’s grandmother, without whose enterprise there would have been no Mughal Empire; the Padshah Begums who ran the vast establishment of the Mahal with an all-women team; the female scholars and poets – like Zeb-un-Nissa, Salima Sultan Begum, Zeenat-un-Nissa – who influenced the emperor in matters of diplomacy and state policy; and the queens and princesses who ran vast estates and oversaw fleets of trading vessels, among others. Mahal is a rare peek into life behind the veil, and an illuminating account of the role women played in the courts of the Mughal Empire.
Author : James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages: pt. I. Mussulman rule. pt.II. Mogul empire. Aurangzeb written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351180786
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though I am nothing to look at, it is women who have sought my company more than I have sought theirs." 'Khushwant Singh' In Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women, India's most widely-read and irreverent author and columnist profiles some of many women in his life. From Ghayoorunnisa Hafeez, the girl who forever changed his attitude towards Muslims, to his wife, Kaval Malik, who is allergic to media publicity; from his old grandmother to the controversial artist Amrita Shergil; from Mother Teresa to Phoolan Devi, Khushwant Singh paints colourful and true-to-life portraits of the women he has known, loved, despised, admired, and lived with. The book also includes some of the women Khushwant Singh has conjured up in the numerous stories and novels he has written over sixty years. The lively Martha Stack (-Black Jasmine'), Lady Mohan Lal (-Karma'), Jean Memsahib (-The Memsahib of Mandla'), the hijra-whore Bhagmati (Delhi), the insatiable Champak (I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale), dark-eyed Nooran (Train to Pakistan) and the free-spirited Molly Gomes (The Company of Women) are only a few of Khushwant Singh's larger-than-life characters who are sure to entertain and amuse the reader.
Author : Oswaal Editorial Board
Publisher : Oswaal Books and Learning Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9356349673
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Oswaal CBSE Chapterwise Solved Papers 2023-2014 History Class 12th (2024 Exam) written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books and Learning Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the product: • Strictly as per the latest CBSE Board Syllabus released on 31st March, 2023 (CBSE Cir No. Acad-39/2023) • 100% Updated with Latest Syllabus & Fully Solved Board Paper • Crisp Revision with timed reading for every chapter • Extensive Practice with 3000+ Questions & Board Marking Scheme Answers • Concept Clarity with 1000+concepts, Smart Mind Maps & Mnemonics • Final Boost with 50+ concept videos • NEP Compliance with Competency Based Questions & Art Integration
Author : L. McJannet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119824
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds written by L. McJannet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
