The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise - Hardcover

Eraly, Abraham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297852094 ISBN 13: 9780297852094

Verlag: W&N, 2007

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Book by Eraly Abraham

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Críticas:

a sound stolid survey by a sound, stolid historian who has the edge on many of his contemporaries writing about Indian history. (THE LITERARY REVIEW)

His lucid narrative style is wonderfully readable (THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE)

Reseña del editor:

The Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one of the most crucial and fascinating periods of Indian history. Here, he looks beyond the story of the empires rise and fall - an exotic growth that was transplanted to India from Islamic Persia - to bring the world of the Mughal ruler and Hindu subject vividly into focus.

Blending contemporary sources and detailed description he introduces an India full of strangeness and contrast: of sacred harems and suttee rites, of brutal war and cultural and artistic refinement, of staggering opulence, deviant indulgences and abject poverty. From bizarre religious cults to the Mughal fondness for formal gardening, from murderous female bandits to the sex lives of the nobles, almost every angle of life is examined making this a comprehensive and absorbing introduction to India's last Golden Age.

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0297852094
• ISBN 13: 9780297852094
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448